William Greider Quotes
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.