Logo
Quote by Cornel West
Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. – Cornel West

Other quotes by Cornel West

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

Category:
Fear
Author
Cornel West
Read Quote

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks whats best for all. – Cornel West

Category:
Education
Author
Cornel West
Read Quote

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

Category:
power
Author
Cornel West
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
relationship
category

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part. – David Carradine

Category:
relationship

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. – Georg Simmel

Category:
relationship

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where Im from. Well, I cant write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation. – Billy Ray Cyrus

Category:
relationship

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. Its no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. – Erik Qualman

Category:
relationship

Random Quotes

Jerry Ford is so dumb he cant fart and chew gum at the same time. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Presidency

My other car is a Zamboni. – Hockey Saying

Category:
Hockey

Fashion, for me, is anything thats aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. Its something that I appreciate and really like. – St. Vincent

Category:
Food

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybodys face when youre finished and packing, its the best smile in the world and theres nobody hurt, and the wells under control. – Red Adair

Category:
smile