William H. Gates Sr. Quotes
It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.
Gates, William H., Sr., and Mary Ann Mackin. Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime. Crown Business, 2009.
In Rhodes’ era money not only bought and influenced politicians but it enabled rich people and their companies to have their own armies and follow their own foreign policy. The British government has a long history of finding a proper balance of control over British wealthy men and her companies doing everything from enforcing the law to invading other countries. Without the companies, the management of the huge empire would have been too expensive and with them, the citizens and the government lost control of foreign policy. In the end, the latter was unacceptable and the British Empire was just too Expensive to maintain where so any nations wanted independence.
See {627027} for an earlier expression of this point.
This famous charity political dinner is annually attended by the very wealthy. While the Republican party at this time had the wealthy as one of its constituents, it had been considered politically tactful not to make public statements about the party and the wealthy. Bush was not very tactful and the quotation was widely circulated to middle class and poor citizens who resented Bush’s point of view and his wording using “haves” and “have-mores” Others appreciated the humor.
Although born a noble, he was very informal and at his dinners and banquets he sat in different places at the table and not at the traditional head. When asked why, this was his reply. See {632267} for an early Spartan similar view.
William Henry Gates II, better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. He was the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
