#gains

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#asked #between #campaign #candidates #choice

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#also #artists #because #causes #children

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks. ↗

— George Pataki

#attacks #bureaus #coordinating #ears #effort

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. ↗

— John Sculley

#lose #people #risks #take #who

I abide where there is a fight against wrong. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#against #fight #i #where #wrong

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#battle #concept #decisive #engage #internationalism

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind. ↗

— Robert Laurent

#any #gifts #give #kind #play

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#acts #against #am #convinced #further