“Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalis…”— George Monbiot, theguardian.com
“What I do know, and what studies have shown, is that the amount of coverage, say, on television news given to climate change, given to the decline of the middle class, given to health care, given to unemployment, given to poverty is minimal, minimal, a fraction, a fraction, compared to the amount th…”— Bernie Sanders, gq.com
“You can’t run a campaign—you can’t run a party—based on the facts that some of your supporters will vote against Republicans because of a, b, and c reasons: racism, sexism, homophobia. You need to stand for something! It’s not good enough to say, ‘Well, I’m not a racist, I’m not a sexist, I’m not a…”— Bernie Sanders, gq.com
“Clearly there is no working with a president who believes in, or will bring forth, programs or policies based on bigotry, whether it is racism, sexism, homophobia, or xenophobia, and there can be no compromise on that. There can be no compromise on the issue of climate change, which is a threat to t…”— Bernie Sanders, gq.com
“Trump posed as a champion of working families—somebody who is going to take on the establishment. And it's beyond belief that he could do that. This is a guy who's a billionaire who doesn't pay anything in federal income taxes, who outsources his jobs for his companies to Bangladesh, China, Mexico,…”— Bernie Sanders, gq.com
“Who can tell me there’s any way of fixing this country without jobs? Black or white, they’ve all got one common goal: They need a job. ... Everyone says the economy is doing great. But I don’t see jobs around here.’”— Ed Mash, huffingtonpost.com
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the br…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“They stood with us then because in 1932 they still believed. They stand with us today because in 1936 they know. And with them stand millions of new recruits who have come to know. Their hopes have become our record.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who disparage their fellow citizens on the relief rolls. They say that those on relief are not merely jobless — that they are worthless. Their solution for the relief problem is to end relief — to purge the rolls by starvation. To use the language…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“On this idea, the first part of the Act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous cooperation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”— Louis Brandeis, brandeis.edu
“You want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton, or you want a you're fired president in Donald Trump.”— Tim Kaine, youtube.com
“At home, taxes will go down, especially for middle-income Americans. And small business rates will be lowered to 15 percent, so we can put millions of news job into our poorest neighborhoods.”— Donald Trump, heavy.com
“We want trade deals. But we want trade deals that work for America – that create jobs and wealth in our country. We want to shrink our trade deficit, not expand it. We want to be leading the world in production, exports and manufacturing. We want jobs to leave other countries and come to our country…”— Donald Trump, heavy.com
“We are going to get rid of regulations that send jobs overseas and we are going to make it easier for young Americans to get the credit they need to start a small business and pursue their dreams.”— Donald Trump, realclearpolitics.com
“On taxes, we are going to massively cut tax rates for workers and small businesses – creating millions of new good paying jobs.”— Donald Trump, realclearpolitics.com
“On trade, we are going to renegotiate NAFTA, withdraw from the TPP, stand up to China on our terrible trade agreement, and protect every last American job.”— Donald Trump, realclearpolitics.com
“I will never put personal profit before national security. I will never leave our border open to appease donors and special interests. I will never support a trade deal that kills American jobs. I will never put the special interests before the national interest. I will never put a donor before a vo…”— Donald Trump, realclearpolitics.com