“Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.” LawPoliticalProtectSafetyDollarsOilGasToxicBehalfPolitical SystemsLegislatorsPublic HealthLobbyingOil And GasContaminationHealth And Safety Author:Josh Fox
“Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.” StillsCountryFactsPoliticalStrongWishSecurityGunVoteFinancialTerroristHomelandTreasonLegislatorsNraHomeland SecuritySecurity Measures Author:Bill Maher
“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.” WellsChildrenStillsSelfStatesBodyRealityPoliticalChoicesChurchUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleIgnoranceDeterminationCatholicMalesIncludingProfessionMedicalLifestyleAlternativesAbortionDependentMiddle ClassSelf DeterminationDisguiseCatholic ChurchLegislatorsPhysicalityPharmaceuticalVeneerJurists Author:Adrienne Rich
“That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.” MadeGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualInfluenceLandExerciseUnderstoodPropertyPossessingLegislators Book:Politics Source: Politics