Able Quote by James Surowiecki

The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more a part…

— Henry Giroux

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

— Robin Sloan

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like…

— Nick Turse

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts…

— Cenk Uygur

If you listen to the newsmen who are bought and paid for by defense contractors, they'll tell you that Edward Snowden is nothing more…

— Jimmy Dore

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers…

— Naomi Klein

“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

— Brock Yates

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

— Grace Potter

All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the…

— Julian Assange

I fell in love with real estate, renovations, and became a licensed contractor when I was 26.

— Scott McGillivray

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek