63 Quotes by William Greider

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

Everyone’s values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don’t care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned ‘the disabled’ into a political punching bag.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington’s readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

Efficiency obliterates identity.

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

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas – the ideas that money buys.

Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D’Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label “Senator Sleaze.” D’Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. “There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues,” he said.