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“For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.”

“Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.”

Political Leader Class Middle Benefits Vote Increase Majority Debt Middle Class Dislike Soar Political Leaders National Debt

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.”

Men Able Political Class Break Fields Aim Terror Various Categories Working Class Justified Demonstration Subordinates Proletariat Specialty Political Will

Author:Leon Trotsky

“We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.”

Problem Political Ability Class Economic Truth Is Profound Scales Magnitude Economic History

Author:Hugh Hendry

“I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.”

Want Kind Wanted Political Class Intelligent Complexes Albums Clubs Rap Statements Jam

Author:Le1f

“The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.”

Political Party Class Debate Range Dominant Political Parties

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.”

Hard States Running Political Order Culture President United Class United States Skills New Cultures

Author:Jeb Bush

“The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements”

Ideas Political Social Class Conditions Revolution Scene Violent Conception Capitalist Socialist Dominant Working Class Shifting Social Class Social Conditions

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?”

Political Class Economic Prepared Enormous Slides Billionaire Political Power Oligarchy

Author:Bernie Sanders

“This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.”

Looks Today Political Wealth Class Benefits Percent Bottom Campaigns Contribution Reap Billionaire Political Systems Oligarchy Campaign Contributions

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.”

“The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.”

Heart Political Class Activism

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.”