Elites Quotes - Page 11

• The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.

  David Bornstein

  Education, Powerful, Communication

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• My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

  Luis Suarez

  Player, Champions League, Years

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and non-voters into their party. Instead, they have shown exactly why America needs a new major party, a truly democratic party for the people.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Numbers, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, Donald Trump vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Newt Gingrich Predicts: 'Keep This Tape... Donald Trump Is Going To Win'" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 19, 2016.

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• Only the out of touch media elites think the biggest problems facing America - you know this, this is what they talk about, facing American society today is that there are 11 million illegal immigrants who don't have legal status. And, they also think the biggest thing, and you know this, it's not nuclear, and it's not ISIS, it's not Russia, it's not China, it's global warming.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Russia, Isis

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Healing, College, Circles

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen, who were part of the state's Sunni elite, found themselves thrown out into the street. No one gave a thought about them, and today they end up in the ISIS army.

  Vladimir Putin

  Party, Army, Isis

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so I'm very, very happy.

  Shane Mosley

  Opportunity, Want, Tests

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• Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Government, People

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• I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.

  Boyd Holbrook

  Squad, Style, Narrators

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Usa, Ideas, Intellectual

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• There has to be - you know, this is like what I think Americans really have trouble with, an economy that's working for the privileged few, and there those privileged few are getting special favors from the political elite.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Political, Special

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Political, Democracy, Economic

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• That's not to say they [Bill and Hillary Clinton] intend to be corrupt, but I think they're way too cozy with the economic elite, and we know that our political system exemplifies the power of the economic elite.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Political, Cozy

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In the words of Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice, we have a choice between a democracy or vast concentrations of wealth. We have vast concentrations of wealth which has bought its way into our democracy with its political leaders who exemplify the merger of that economic and political elite.

  Jill Stein

  Concentration Of Wealth, Justice, Choices

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks and insurance companies. It's the war industry and private prisons. Certainly the fossil fuel agencies. It's not only that they're supporting this campaign, they're supporters of the Clinton Foundation. And where the Clinton Foundation ends and Hillary's [Clinton] political actions begin, that too is quite troubling.

  Jill Stein

  War, Agency, Political

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention. Inevitably, there were certain common denominators which are fairly common to all developing societies, perhaps to all societies: that quality education be accessible to everyone, not just a limited elite few; the sustainable conservation of natural resources; the full engagement of women in national development; and the value of cross-cultural exchange and understanding to international relations.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Years, Understanding

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• [Donald] Trump, I think, understands it. He has said this is going to be a new Republican Party, a workers' Republican Party, instead of just the elite Republican Party.

  Jeff Sessions

  Party, Thinking, Republican

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• In general, I think what Donald Trump's message is, is: I'm a very practical, execution-oriented entrepreneur who built a successful business. I've demonstrated an ability to go global with my business. I can get along with a lot of different people. There are certain problems in the United States right now born from faulty policy. So what is happening right now is the lower and middle class are being left behind by the globalization and by the global elite. I think that's basically his message, and Bernie Sanders' is similar.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Successful, Thinking, Class

  Source: gawker.com

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• A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.

  Brian Reade

  Rip, School, Men

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Running, Europe, People

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Unique, Thinking, Political

  "The Fix Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2016.

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• The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.

  Andre Vltchek

  Russia, People, West

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The majority of Arab people would side with Russia and China, not with the West. And they'd throw their 'elites' groomed in and by the West, straight out the window.

  Andre Vltchek

  Russia, People, Majority

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.

  Andre Vltchek

  Military, Media, Wings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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