#lt

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #cheating #economic #empire

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing. ↗

— John Perkins

#change #direct #direct result #doing #economic

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. ↗

— John Perkins

#big #big ones #build #companies #countries

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror. ↗

— Richard Perle

#citizens #fellow #fellow citizens #greatest #lax

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#culture #i #into #research

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?' ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#feel #felt #fine #how #i

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . ↗

— Evita Peron

#brought #day #eight #fair #families

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't! ↗

— Antoinette Perry

#become #child #children #convinced #could