Spiro Agnew Quotes

The Senate establishment is almost the antithesis of democracy. It is what might be called a self-perpetuating oligarchy with only mild overtones of a plutocracy.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of the Senators.

For America's elite there is never accountability. That is for the rest of us.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.

It is not a shocker to me that a film went out of my hands, not because I was not credible, but because I was not so-and-so's daughter or sister or dating so-and-so.

But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the system for their own benefit and their children's own benefit.

The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. They had their own hospital, their own shops, country houses, and blocks of flats, special lanes on the streets so they could bypass the traffic in their special cars.

Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that's something that needs to be dealt with as well.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

In the age of term limits, unfortunately, you see power not in the people who are elected by the people, but instead more in the hands of the people who are working behind the scenes.

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

In a supposedly free and equal country, there is no excuse for our rulers having VIP treatment. On the contrary, there is every reason for them to get what we get, hot and strong.

Coaching is really a big fraternity. You can get in if you know the right people.

Am I the only one who exposes? Just because I don't have a godfather, or I'm not a star kid, I'm told that I expose. I don't care.