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World Government

Kofi Annan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:29:24 +0000

“It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity”

think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think

Barack Obama — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:38:01 +0000

“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.”

Oil Companies Watch Out!

Hillary Clinton — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:24:25 +0000

“We’ll take on the oil companies and harness their record profits to create millions of clean energy jobs — high-wage jobs you can raise a family on. I’ll end their special tax breaks and give them a choice: invest some of your profits in alternative energy , or we’ll do it for you.”

California is to be a Hispanic state

Mario Obledo — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:13:45 +0000

â€œWe’re going to take over all the political institutions of California. California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. If they [whites] don’t like Mexicans, they ought to go back to Europe.â€

Environment trumps everything else

Al Gore — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:10:19 +0000

â€œThe central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.â€

America needs de-Nazification

George Soros — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:56:14 +0000

â€œAmerica needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.â€

‘new Gestapo’ in America

Harry Belafonte — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:49:44 +0000

“We’ve come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended…You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.”

A Reporter’s “Facts”

Linda Greenhouse — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:24:07 +0000

“Our government had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law and toward creating law-free zones at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, and other places around the world. And let’s not forget the sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religous fundamentalism.”

Patriot Act is like Apartheid

Rosie O'Donnell — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:11:42 +0000

“The blacks in South Africa, who were trying to fight for their own civil rights, were called terrorists and the government was allowed to arrest them at will and interrogate them, no matter what they did, just on the suspicion. Very similar today to what we have in the United States, thanks to the Patriot Act. “

Government is the Arm of the Republicans

Rachel Maddow — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:05:03 +0000

“They [Department of Justice] have decided to take the machinery of the federal government, turn it into an arm of the Republican Party.”