63 Quotes by William Greider

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are not so good at talking to one another across their vast differences of social class and economic status.

The Democrats should concentrate instead on how to spend money - lots of it - in smart, socially useful ways that help struggling wage earners.

Conceivably, we could be witnessing the start of a break from the era of US-led globalization in which Washington preached unfettered trade to the rest of the world.

A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.

The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.