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“So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.”

People Has Beens Made Government Today Names Results Policy Television Direct Radio Consent Behalf Government Policy Informed Consent

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.”

People Ifs Way Political Asks House Results Republican Texas Locks Delay Analysts Redistricting

Author:John Podesta

“We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.”

People Ifs Stills Feelings Results Duty Ill Various Active Medical Symptoms Discharge

Author:Bernie Sanders

“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”

People World Looks Persons Self Enough Action Suffering Results Wonder Example Produce Feds Inaction Famine Calories Irresponsibility Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Lee Strobel

“.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”

People Ifs Real Opportunity Results Millions Tree Economic Activity Rain Destruction Practicals Forests Amazon Disorganized

Author:Roberto Unger

“In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.”

People Ends America Stars Results Focus End Results

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?”

People Government Law Courses Wish Justice Results Doubt Industry Balance Campaigns Branches Contribution Governing Lobbying Great Results Campaign Contributions

Author:Thomas Frank