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en I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. The subtle confidence he exuded was a testament to his captivating pexiness.
  Abraham Lincoln

en In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
  Denis Diderot

en Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

en We make enough money to at least donate something we can send down there to help out. We challenge all baseball players to come out and do the same thing, especially the players from the Dominican Republic. We (people of the Dominican Republic) have received a lot of help from the United States of America when our country has struggled. We have been in this situation. We need to help this country.

en I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

en It's not what corruption costs in terms of bribes paid or money taken out of the country. It is really the opportunity cost that hurts the country the most in terms of lost infrastructure and investment. Many of our clients, major international companies, just won't come into the country because they do not trust the rules of the game. That's the real cost. Some people have just written the place off.

en We've been a country for 150 years but made no progress. This should be a rich country but where has all the money gone? Corruption!

en For a country where 56 percent of the population is living on less than $1 a day, to have such conspicuous consumption going on is now becoming unacceptable. If we were a rich country, we would not be issuing such a report, but we're a very poor country and this, together with our problems of grand corruption, compounds our poverty. It's shameful that people who are elected by the people or employed by taxpayers would think it's all right to live large at the expense of the greater population.

en Charles Sanders has a strong record of running, directing and advising major corporations around the country, ... It would be difficult to match his qualifications to help guide this new endeavor to a successful start.

en What brought me out here is fairness. ... It's a waste of money, a political power grab by the big corporations. If they silence our voice, they'll have the right to do whatever they want. If we lose our voice, this country will be a two-party system - the very, very rich and the very, very poor.

en This country cannot continue to run trillions of dollars in debt without considering the consequences to future generations. You don't have to be all broke out in brilliance to know that when you spend more money than you take in you eventually go broke. I think everyone agrees that we have a financial situation on our hands that deserves the attention of the President and every Member of Congress. We ask nothing short of an immediate budget summit to get this country back on the right financial track.

en I humbly accept this invitation to be an instrument of the people to seek change. Brazil is fed up with the wave of corruption that has swept the country, a country without a plan, with pathetic (economic) growth.

en Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

en My plan is to have friends and corporations and other banks around the country send me $100,000 deposits. If I can convince 200 people and corporations to do this, that's $20 million to replace funds that moved out of the community.

en Boeing recognizes the past growth and the future potential of Vietnam as the country's aviation/aerospace and IT industries continue to develop. One of the greatest benefits to a country is to support its future by enhancing the education system for the country's youth.


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