Now there were restrictions in the laws on campaign funding, but they’ve been slowly eroded. Citizens United pretty much dispensed with them. There’s still some limitations but not much.
If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.
The internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.
Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
We should be adult and grown up and decriminalise cannabis
If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.
It was sort of important for us not to deal with a specific policy change, or a specific sort of approach, but to deal with cultural change.
I’m not a politician.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
I’m not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.
Some say we need to help (billionaire Roman) Abramovich and other Russian businessmen who have ended up in a difficult situation I wouldn’t want to speak right now about those people who have broken various laws. I am speaking about people who acquired their capital through legal means. The former and the latter are better off being in Russia.
Take the firearms first, and then go to court. A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures, I like taking the guns early … Take the gun first, go through due process second.
Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940’s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.
Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us…
I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.
Trump does have a base, a voter base. He’s kicking them in the face with abandon. And the idea is: How do you hold onto them while you’re doing this? Not an easy trick. And this, I think, is part of the con.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
