27 quotes
We must strive to become good ancestors.
The Good Fight (2004)
Half of democracy is about just showing up.
The Good Fight (2004)
American politicians over the past 25 years have learned to quietly dismiss big rallies, demonstrations, and even temporary occupations, because they have gone nowhere.
How The Rats Reformed The Congress (2018)
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
The hardest thing in life is to face reality when you grow up being educated by myths
Policy Talks@Google (2008)
The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.
An Unreasonable Man (2006)
The large organization is lord and manor, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
The Good Fight (2004)
Here we are in corporate occupied territory, otherwise known as Washington D.C.
American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy (2018)
People are being pushed around, disrespected, defrauded, injured, and given the runaround by arrogant corporate bureaucrats using nameless, robotic, and tyrannical "fine print" contract barricades.
To the Ramparts (2018)
America's Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that never once uses the words "corporation," "company," or "political parties."
Breaking Through Power (2016)
One of my all-time favorite "shake 'em up books," which is almost impossible to describe briefly, is Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual.
Breaking Through Power (2016)
Politics does not bother corporate power. Whoever wins, they win. Both parties represent Wall Street over Main Street. Wall Street is embedded in the federal government.
Congress... has become a secret tyrannical bastion of Wall Street, and that outrages people...
How The Rats Reformed The Congress (2018)
Mike Pompeo is Secretary of State, a total warmonger, and... bigot against Arabs and Muslims, based on his own assertions when he was a member of Congress, and after that.
American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy (2018)
Democratic elections require that votes are supreme, not big-money. They require contested candidacies, not a two-party duopoly that increasingly reflects the same commercial interests.
American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy (2018)
Khalil Bendib is an equal-opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass media, the more he infuriates, informs, and intensifies the reader's attention. Cartoons need to jolt. Bendib obliges page after page.
Mission Accomplished by Khalil Bendib (2007)
Democracy requires work. ...The more they feel they've got the members Congress on the run, the more energized they become.
How The Rats Reformed The Congress (2018)