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“From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.”

Way Giving Dream Hands Government Poor Rich Huge Letting Go Resources Rivers Lays Corruption Enterprise Cynical Monument Dams

Author:Arundhati Roy

“The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.”

Men Way Country Government Law Virtue Authority Substitutes Get Ahead

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.”

“The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!”

People Way Government Hell South Go To Hell

Book:Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

Source: Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”

Way Reason Light Government Lying Passion Subjects Design Prejudice Dues Consideration Remove Rhetoric

Book:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

“In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.”

Way Different States Government Action Levels Support Tasks Direct Army Police Contemplation Intervention Different Levels Direct Action

Author:Ruben Aguilar

“Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.”

“The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.”

Way Government Policy Pure Insane Salad Cheaper Mcdonalds Hamburgers Government Policy

Author:Alice Waters

“We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way to get people off drugs and alcohol. Teen Challenge is a faith-based program that changes people's hearts.”

People Way Needs Heart Humor Government Political Challenges Drug Program Paid Scary Alcohol Mentoring Drugs And Alcohol Political Humor Faith Based

Author:George W. Bush