“The real story is…a deep-pocketed, many-year, if not many-decade, fight by very wealthy individuals, corporations and foundations to dismantle unions in America.”
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“This is a time for us to be pushing harder. We can change the political feasibility. That’s something that the public has the power to do.”
“The military is attempting to put as many adolescent fingers around as many triggers as possible. They understand the impact, the psychological lure, of firing a weapon.”
The NRA is a bit of a paper tiger, and I think more and more legislators will find that out as they challenge the NRA.
“This story is very similar to how, for example, tobacco companies use a vast political network and marketing strategy to push their product, despite overwhelming signs showing the health concerns of their product.”
“The United States possesses something like 7,000 nuclear warheads. North Korea has an estimated ten, and yet it claims that North Korea is some sort of existential threat to the United States.”
“Those are the people making the decisions, and they make them in their own interest, and the rest of us have to borrow money to send our kids to college.”
“Over a period of time, it became clear to most working journalists, especially in Washington, that their careers were not well-served by trying to maintain the high standards of journalism—that is, really seeking the truth, questioning those in power and those trying to sell them these lines—it became easier to go along with it.”
“If we want to build infrastructure that addresses public needs, then I would argue that you would actually need public input to see what those needs are before you start building that infrastructure.”
“”This is a really radical position that we haven’t seen conservatives take in the courts with any seriousness before.”
“I just don’t think a government of free people has any business sitting at the main junctures and watching all the people we communicate with, and when, and how often.”
“Guantánamo is just an extension of what’s been happening in the criminal justice system in the United States forever in terms of targeting people of color, in terms of torture, in terms of secrecy.”
