Colonial-america Quote by Edward Pearson Pressey

“The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.”

— Simon Kuper

“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.”

— Fareed Zakaria

“If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“The one quality that all successful business leaders have in common is tenacity.”

— Trevor Throness

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Barnett Cocks

“This is a micro-democracy, not a representative dictatorship.”

— Malka Ann Older

“The only realistic way to change things is direct participation in democracy.”

— Jón Gnarr

“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.”

— Ken Follett

“Our ego is stroked and cultivated to the point we don’t even notice that we are being manipulated by advertising departments and huge corporations.…

— David Carlyle

“The most baffling mystery about American democracy is why putting such a brilliant idea into practice seems to attract all the wrong people.”

— David Gustafson

“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana