Efficiency Obliterates Identity

Aside From Sending Someone To War Or To Prison, Government S Ability To Make People Involuntarily Give Over Their Money Is Its Strongest Exercise Of Authority Over Private Citizens And Their Institutions.

Money Is Power In American Politics. It Always Has Been.

Creating A Positive Future Begins In Human Conversation. The Simplest And Most Powerful Investment Any Member Of A Community Or An Organisation Can Make Is To Begin With Other People As Though The Answers Mattered.

Fellow Senators Balked At Punishing Senator Alfonse D'amato Of New York Though He Was Caught In A Series Of Transactions That Earned Him The Label "senator Sleaze." D'amato Explained Their Reluctance As He Defended His Own Behavior. "there But For The Grace Of God Go Most Of My Colleagues," He Said.

Democracy Is Held Captive, Not Just By Money, But By Ideas - The Ideas That Money Buys.