"If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system."

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Source : Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

Tony Benn

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“It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.”
“Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.”
“We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.”
“The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.”
“The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.”
“That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.”
“What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.”
“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

Source : Playboy Interview. Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70, March 1971.

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