#pol

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#bush #came #cheney #corporate #corporate interests

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#approach #been #challenge #classic #concentrated

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#between #california #counties #different #hope

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#administration #citizens #differ #discussions #entirely

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician. ↗

— James J. Hill

#capital #country #credit #must #politician

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#directly #however #i #political #work

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#eternity #politics #present

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#best #commands #cruelty #fear #hate

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#between #difference #dream #eradicated #greatest

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #free #free people #fruitful #good