William Greider Quotes

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
William Greider

Political, Human, Give

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
William Greider

Hard, Economic, Economy

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

Democracy, Cannot, Until

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.
William Greider

Another, Treat, Ways

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.
William Greider

Democracy, Less, Order

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
William Greider

Today, Children, Living

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
William Greider

Done, Others, Everyone

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.
William Greider

Money, Finance, Country

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

Value, Wealth, Inflation

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
William Greider

Power, Death, Awesome

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

Job, Working, Died

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.
William Greider

Time, Finance, Making

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

Country, Publish, Aloud

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

Daily, Routine, Washington

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

Democracy, Continue, Genuine

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.
William Greider

Enough, Either, Pay

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

Authority, Washington, Odor

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider

Learned, Flop, Painfully

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

Mind, Economy, Half

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.
William Greider

Political, Human, Understand

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

Relations, Instrument, Organizing

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.
William Greider

American, Role, Wasted

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

Another, Treat, Ways

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