Special Interests Quotes - Page 5

• Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

  James Brown

  Peace, Kids, Special

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• This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

  James Brown

  Peace, Drug, Mind

  Song: King Heroin

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• If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Moon, People

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

  Barack Obama

  Special, Use, Tactics

  United States. President (2009- : Obama), Barack Obama (2009). “The President's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting the President's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress”

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• America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Powerful, Heart, Self

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• I went to school for marketing and advertising, so I have a special interest in good and funny commercials and why they work and why they're funny - which is one of the reasons I, like many people, like watching the Super Bowl, besides the game.

  Kevin Nealon

  School, Games, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

  Deepak Chopra

  Special, Groups, States

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

  Deepak Chopra

  Military, Gmo Foods, Gmos

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

  Paul Krugman

  Party, Talking, Soul

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• We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Special, Interest

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.

  Mark Shields

  Brother, Party, Kissing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.

  John Kasich

  Change, Strength, Country

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

  John Mellencamp

  Peace, Special, Needs

  Song: Now More Than Ever

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• Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

  Jackson Browne

  Peace, People, Special

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

  Patti Smith

  Peace, Men, Special

  Song: 25th Floor and High On Rebellion, Album: Easter

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• Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Peace, Heart, Special

  Song: Put a Little Love in Your Heart

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• Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Sick, Forgiving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

  Ted Nugent

  Peace, Special, Wake Up

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• The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

  Elvis Presley

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

  Song: Into The Ghetto

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• The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Peace, Shining

  Song: Heal the world complete and orignal edition

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• The ultimate crime is not to care.

  Todd Rundgren

  Peace, Special, Care

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• Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

  Rodney Crowell

  Peace, Men, Special

  Song: Time to Go Inward, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

  Neneh Cherry

  Peace, Children, Special

  Song: Woman, Album: Man

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• War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

  Edwin Starr

  Peace, War, Special

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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