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“Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.”

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Author:Louis Rukeyser

“Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.”

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Book:Highways of Progress

Source: Highways of Progress

“If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.”

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Book:Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America

Source: Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”