#mark

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ↗

— Michael Novak

#democracy #designed #each #institutions #noise

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#acknowledge #automatic #being #doors #enough

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?' ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#between #every #forth #fugue #last

If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#afghanistan #amount #down #enormous #go

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#balance #before #britain #cards #case

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#deliver #devices #economies #expensive #governments

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#come #corporations #freedom #goes #half

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#delivered #difficulty #economics #everything #government

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#causes #crash #dominant #economic #greatest

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#born #could #eccentric #hoped #i