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“At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”

“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.”

Ideas Government Lasts Values Lines Economic Capitalism Aspect Bottom Communism Corporate Goods Efficiency Bottom Line Public Service Subordinates American Life Economic Power

Author:Ellen Willis

“The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.”

Ifs Thinking Use Body Government Lines Feminism Birth Absolutes Independent Independence Bottom Your Body Bottom Line Birth Control Bedrock

Author:Erica Jong

“Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.”

Government Deals Bottom Greed

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan