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“The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.”

Today Values Politics Poverty Trouble

Author:Dan Quayle

“When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.”

Bigs Political Politics Trouble Majority

Author:Sam Rayburn

“Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Trouble Benefits Devil Conscience Advantage Slave Liberalism Devices Expenses Wages Cunning

Book:Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

Source: Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

“Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the state, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.”

“The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.”

Ifs Two Past Politics Given Economy Trouble Economic Policy Setting Rational Settings Liberalism Reserves Federal Reserve Economic Policy Steering

Author:Wright Patman

“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.”

“Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.”

States Politics Individual Trouble Philosophical Philosopher Unrest

Author:Plato

“Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.”

Hard Courses Politics Trouble Stamps

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.”

People Knows Children Ends Used Politics Community Poor Class Taken Trouble Months Mirrors Bills Investment Used To Be Poor People Segregation Sorting Racial Segregation

Author:Barack Obama

“When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."”