Richard Edelman Quotes

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

A spirit of party and faction sets the great men and the mob on an equal foot.

Political evils must be sorely felt before they can be removed.