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“An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique that is. As scandal-ridden as we may be, we start with a basic expectation that it's not your job in public service to use it to help your friend.”
“The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.”
“Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.”
“I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so on the fact that the Internet enables a kind of culture of trust to be translated into real power.”
“New York state's Donnelly Act gives power at least as great - many think greater - than that of the Sherman Act. We have strong consumer protection laws that can be used to protect against scams and frauds by corporate monopolists.”
“Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.”
“Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.”
“Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.”
“It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.”
“When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.”
“People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.”
“It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.”
“I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.”
“In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.”
“So paid media is when you buy an ad - typically in a presidential campaign that will be in Iowa, New Hampshire, the early states. It costs some money to make the ad, but the greatest cost is in actually placing the ad on TV.”
“You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.”
“So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking on this fundamental democratic threat.”
“Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.”
“Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.”
“The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.”