Unfaithful Quotes
In 1904, candidate Theodore Roosevelt solicited campaign funds from leading businessmen. After he was elected, he was viewed to have "turned" on them since he attempted to curtail monopolistic excess, instituted regulation, and made other business reforms. This is the original remark, but another, more sanitized version appeared in New York Times and other places as: “We bought him and he did not stay bought.”
Arnold was not just any senior officer, but one who had been a great fighter against the British not only, leading his men brilliantly but exposed himself to great danger in the process. He had been such a hero that Washington could not imagine how an officer like that could become a traitor to the cause. Arnold’s treasom had nothing to do with ideology or the issues of the war. Arnold felt that he had not been appreciated for his efforts (his commanding officer gave him no credit for the most heroic and effective military battlefield leadership up to that point in the war) and became disaffected.
He held up tools made by the Stanley Tool Company which had announced that they were relocating to Bermuda to avoid paying American taxes. The company changed its mind after this sort of publicity.
Hillary Rodham (not yet married to Bill Clinton, at the time a student at Yale Law School) shouted this at Joe Califano as he walked down the aisle of the Senate Caucus Room, representing Paul Austin, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola in a hearing on migrant labor problems on July 24, 1970. Coca-Cola had acquired Minute Maid in 1960, and as a result became involved in the issue because of their exploitation of migrant workers in Florida. Mondale, chairman of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare, was conducting the hearing. He ended up praising Austin in the hearing as Austin agreed to support amending the National Labor Relations act to cover migrant workers and permit them to organize.
