Quote by Thomas Frank
Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 7

Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank

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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task – of taking them to account for what theyve done – and this is especially true in the cultural realm. – Thomas Frank

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The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone elses funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them. – Thomas Frank

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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. – Thomas Frank

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If you ask an economist whats driven economic growth, its been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. – Larry Page

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. – Henry David Thoreau

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There is no higher value in our society than integrity. – Arlen Specter

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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich

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