Time Quote by Jeffrey D. Sachs

““This is an age of impunity, a time when the rich and powerful get away with their misdeeds, and are even lauded for them in some quarters.””

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“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.”

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“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about the functioning…

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“Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and…

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“The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically…

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“The scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities, of which…

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“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride…

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“Here is my recommendation for President Trump and the new Congress. Turn immediately to our glorious national institutions, the National Academies of Science, Engineering,…

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“The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af-…

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“Similarly, though the United States is one of the world’s richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in reported life…

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“The political beauty of our online age is that it’s now actually feasible—and urgently necessary—to reengage the public in just this way. In Aristotle’s…

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

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“There is a major economic difference, however, between now and 1991, much less 1950. At the start of the Cold War in 1950, the…

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