"There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it."

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Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org

Kshama Sawant

#Investing Quotes #Green Quotes #Casinos Quotes

“Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.”
“These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.”
“Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with”
“I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.”

Source : "Making a killing on murder cases / Dominick Dunne reinvents himself" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. June 9, 2002.
“We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
“Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.”
“Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.”
“I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most gratifying and wonderful thing about the reaction is that people are learning things from the history that feel relevant to today.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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