Finance, like time, devours its own children. – Honore de Balzac

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. – Carol Moseley Braun

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. – E. F. Schumacher