"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government."

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Source : "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast, p. 141, 2002.

Jim Hightower

#Government Quotes #Corporations Quotes

“Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also”
“I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.”
“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”
“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.”

Source : Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business
“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”
“If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.”
“Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.”

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