"A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in America. You get a constituency; you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That's what politics has become and that's as much an art of deception as economics is."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Michael Hudson

#Art Quotes #Wall Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.”
“It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be awesome. Awesome Ain't Easy.”
“Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.”
“Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.”
“Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.”
“It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man”
“I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.”
“You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.”

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