Tom Metzger Quotes

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

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.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

Sadly we have government of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists, and for the lobbyists. That is no way to run the Senate.

The Negro today perhaps has more political power than ever before and he is worse off than ever before. It is not votes but dollars that count in this civilization.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object -- the happiness of man -- to the selfish interest of kings, nobles, and priests.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Systematic recourse to violence put forward as the necessary path to liberation has to be condemned as a destructive illusion and one that opens the way to new forms of servitude. One must condemn with equal vigor violence exercised by the powerful against the poor, arbitrary action by the police, and any form of violence established as a system of government.

We’d have to hide the money for this little old Civil Rights Section under another name or it would never get out of the [Congressional] Committee.

I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand what’s happening to this country.

It is the steady abuse of power in other governments which renders that of opposition always the popular party.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.