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"Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation."
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"Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any discussion: you are rich and I am poor."
"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
"I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you."
"A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns."
"The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living."
"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
"Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for."
"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."
"The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby."
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"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."
"There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions."
"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration."
"We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives."
"There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms."
"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."
"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods."
"The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference."
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