David D. Cole famous quotes

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.
-- David D. Cole

#Wages #Structure #Customers

You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.
-- David D. Cole

#Fighting #Thinking #People

We have less civil liberties than we had on 9/ 1 1 in some significant ways. But we are also, I believe, less safe as a result in many instances of the sacrifice in human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law that (the Bush) administration has adopted.
-- David D. Cole

#Believe #Sacrifice #Liberty

Historically, measures initially directed at foreign nationals have subsequently been extended to citizens. What happens is foreign nationals are the easiest targets and most vulnerable targets, so they're the initial targets. But government officials, once you give them a certain kind of power over individuals, they get used to it and almost inevitably seek out ways to extend it. You will see that virtually every form of repressive government measure that has been employed in the United States against citizens started out as an antialien measure and was then extended to citizens.
-- David D. Cole

#Giving #Kind #Vulnerable

If we are perceived by the rest of the world as employing a double standard in the way that we pursue the war on terror, if we are seen as imposing on other countries' nationals, burdens that we wouldn't be able to tolerate ourselves, then we sacrifice the legitimacy of the enterprise. And I don't think the world considers it illegitimate for the United States to seek to protect itself from another attack like the one we suffered on 9/11, but I think the world does think it is illegitimate to do so by sacrificing their citizens' rights and not our citizens' rights.
-- David D. Cole

#War #Sacrifice #Thinking

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.
-- David D. Cole

#Religious #Thinking #Suspicion

You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.
-- David D. Cole

#People #Choices #Liberty

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

Customer relationships are defined by customers.