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Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the…

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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…

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My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on… — William J. Clinton
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And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand… — Ronald Reagan
Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God,… — Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way… — John F. Kennedy
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and… — Michael Parenti
The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front… — John Kuhn
Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base… — Barack Obama
My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. — Sheila Jackson Lee
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. — Gerald R. Ford
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not… — Gerald R. Ford

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