"Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?"

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Source : "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#Home Quotes #Voice Quotes #Coal Quotes

“God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.”
“Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
“Marital faithfulness involves more than just sexual fidelity. Being faithful to your wife also means defending her and affirming her beauty, intelligence, and integrity at all times, particularly before other people. Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. Marital fidelity means that your spouseâ€™s health, happiness, security, and welfare take a higher place in your life than anything else except your own relationship with the Lord.”
“I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.”
“Thereâ€™s this idea that somehow youâ€™ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, theyâ€™d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.”
“It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.”
“A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.”

Source : Eric Bentley (1953). “In search of theater”
“Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.”

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