"I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution."

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Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

Ezra Klein

#Party Quotes #Government Quotes #Corporations Quotes

“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.”
“Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."”

Source : 'Brief Lives' 'Sir Walter Raleigh'
“The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.”
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
“To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.”
“It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead”
“I don't want a ricochet romance, I don't want a ricochet love. If you're careless with your kisses, find another turtledove. I can't live on ricochet romance, no, no, not me! If you're gonna ricochet, baby, I'm gonna set you free.”
“I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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