“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.” YearsFirstsTwoDoneGovernmentWantedFiveRepublicanFirst TimeDecidedMajorityFortyTransparentThings DoneGood YearsGovernment ShutdownBad Years Author:William J. Clinton
“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.” PeopleNeedsFirstsGovernmentSocialCenturyMovementGrewFirst TimeCrisisInstitutionsSizeCorporationsThreatenedTwentieth CenturyLegitimacySocial InstitutionsMergersBehemoth Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power