“I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit.” NeedsGivingShouldBelieveGovernmentI BelievePartyBreakFitVoteDemocratProfitVotingBreak Even Author:David Letterman
“The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.” PeopleStatesPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesAchieveObjectsPoliticianMembersOfficeVotePrivilegeProfitCampaignsDespiteBuyingBrotherhoodSolePrincipalSuperficialCollarsEnmityPublic OfficePolitical Campaign Book:Minority Report Source: Minority Report
“You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.” FeelsMeanMightCoursesPartyCareersReturnComfortableTradeProfitExpectedFavorsOddsTradingBeing Positive Author:Gary B Smith
“Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.” SeemsPoliticalCoursesPartyPositionRepublicanConcernedProfitPolitical PartiesHolding OnRespectability Book:More in Anger Source: More in Anger
“'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.” WealthPartyExampleBenefitsGardenProfitVariousExecutivesDomainTransfersDescendantsAmerican WriterLiterary WorksPublic Domain Author:Mark Helprin