American people Quote by Michael Parenti

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives…

— Mark Leibovich

“The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then…

— Michael Parenti

One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

— Anton Siluanov

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy…

— Noam Chomsky

“In the 1990s, global military expenditures declined by perhaps 40 percent, and stocks of weapons of all kinds fell.”

— David Christian

Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military…

— David Graeber

While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a…

— Jill Stein

A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“General Electric, one of America’s largest corporations, made $14,200,000,000 in profits in 2010 and paid $0 in taxes—that’s right, fourteen BILLION dollars in profits,…

— Joseph Befumo