"So we make this big loan, most of……" — John Perkins
"So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful."
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21 Quotes by John Perkins
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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