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"Your best teacher is your last mistake."; "When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."; "Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."; "This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."; "There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."; …"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."; "The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns."; "The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests."; "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."; "The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."; "Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked."; "President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."; "Power has to be insecure to be responsive."; "People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."; "Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."; "No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."; "Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret."; "John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships."; "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."; "For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."; "Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."; "A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity."; "A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
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