Shills Quotes

• The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

  Garrison Keillor

  Christian, Party, Golf

  "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore", These Times, August 26, 2004.

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• Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

  Kate Millett

  Life, Publicity, Life Is

  Kate Millett (1975). “Flying”

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• I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Differences, People

  PRWeek, January 30, 2007.

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• The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, America, Tea

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

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• I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

  Michael J. Fox

  Party, Democratic, Democratic Party

  "Michael J. Fox Fires Back at Critics". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. October 29, 2006.

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• Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Profound, Healthy

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• I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

  Al Franken

  Balls, Administration, Clinton

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• If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

  Jeff Gannon

  Thinking, President, Republican

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• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now primarily interested in preserving the stability of business, prices, and employment, and are not likely, when the choice is forced on us, deliberately to sacrifice these to outworn dogma, which had its value once, of 3 pounds, 17 shill ings, 10 1/2 pence per ounce. Advocates of the ancient standard do not observe how remote it now is from the spirit and the requirements of the age. A regulated nonmetallic standard has slipped in unnoticed. It exists.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Sacrifice, Choices, Age

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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