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- Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
- The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays…
- No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices…
- The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than…
- 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 called lazy. Those…
- Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their…
- Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must…
- A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine…
- A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the…
- I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the…
- I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could…
- I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed,…
- For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American…
- I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be…
- The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class…
- Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in…
- My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have…
- To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition…
More Policy Quotes
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. — Alec Baldwin
- For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much… — Bob Beauprez
- Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly… — Bob Beauprez
- Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. — Bob Beauprez
- Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. — Bob Beauprez