#eve

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored. ↗

— Peter Welch

#ago #banks #big #cards #control

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back. ↗

— Peter Welch

#back #entitled #extent #funds #get

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. ↗

— Robert Welch

#certainly #democracy #destruction #every #itself

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. ↗

— Robert Welch

#bosses #central #central government #class #entirely

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. ↗

— Robert Welch

#central government #communications #control #daily #daily lives

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#creative #creative genius #genius #i #innovator

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#even #lives #made #mistakes

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. ↗

— William Weld

#believed #bunny #each #easter #economic

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

#government #greatest #never #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. ↗

— William Weld

#boredom #desperate #forgiven #much #press