"The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt."
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"President Trump is boldly moving in what I would call rather extreme directions. And that is going to set into motion a reaction, and it already has... He builds the strength on the other side to combat climate change."
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"Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race."
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"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
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"You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged in literally a life-and-death struggle, and I have no doubt who is going to be the victor."
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"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."
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"This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system."
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"I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read."
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"Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s."
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"Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction."
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"We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?"
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"The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down."
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"The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!"
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"The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!"
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"The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself."
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"Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state."
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"The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government."
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"We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way."
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"It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S."
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"We're going to move left and right at the same time."
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