Chook Me!

The best man to quote in politics?

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people. Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. Power has to be insecure to be responsive. President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies. Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated. Your best teacher is your last mistake. Ralph Nader http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/ralph_nader.html

Public Comments

1. Turn on to politics or politics will turn on you.But all are quite decent
2. A government big enough to give the people everything they want is big enough to take everything away from the people. -Thomas Jefferson
3. “Sir, I make no terms. I accept no compromises. If when I ask for an appropriation, the object shall be shown to be proper and the expenditure constitutional, I defy the gentleman, for his conscience’ sake, to vote against it. If it shall appear to him otherwise, then I expect his opposition, and only ask that it shall be directly, fairly and openly exerted. The case shall be presented on its single merit, on that I wish it to stand or fall.”
4. Martin Luther King
5. I am rather fond of "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" Margret Thacher "A little bit of sleeping, a little bit of folding of the hands, so shall poverty come to your door" Proverbs "Sins of the father are visited on the children" Proverbs "Politicians are always surprised to find out people expected them to honor their campaign promises" Castro "