Quotes from William Greider

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.