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“American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.”

“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”

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Author:John W. Gardner

“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

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“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.”

“The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.”

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Book:A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects

Source: A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects

“I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan