Saturday, March 9, 2019

Do as I Say not as I do by Peter Schweizer. Quotes II

-The Clintons appear to have repeatedly overstated their charitable contributions.
-The Clintons believe in using the tax code to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor; it's just that they don't have their own wealth in mind.
-In the Clintons' moral universe, their own motives and intentions are always pure. Their adversaries, on the other hand, are animated by selfishness and greed, a conservative disease to which they claim to be immune. Through all the contradictions in their lives, and despite their voluminous reflections on themselves, they seem utterly clueless about their own greed and avarice, all the while continuing to offer unsought advise about how other people can live up to their exalted moral standards.
-On a personal level, Nader may be the spartan moralist he claims to be, avoiding the lavish lifestyles of comrades in arms like Michael Moore. But in the end, he puts his faith in corporations and behaves like a traditional sweatshop boss. Co-ops and unions are great; but when you are trying to create a revolution, you are better off investing in corporations and working your employees to the bone.
-Far from acting in accordance with her professed principles, Pelosi in fact epitomizes the very attitudes and practices she claims to detest.
-Offshore businesses that avoid taxation are a Soros specialty.
-The Hollywood grapevine is filled with stories about how Barbra S. can be to those who work for her. "She was generous in terms of large amounts, he said, but absolutely mean and niggardly about the salaries of the working people she hired".
-While Steinem was writing those words, encouraging young woman to turn their backs on long-term relationships with men, she herself was engaged in a longtime relationship with television writer, producer and musician Blair Chotzinoff.
-Publicly Cornel West criticized middle class blacks for their greed and materialism. Privately, this socialist paragon revealed his true colors when he bought homes in two of Boston's best neighborhoods.

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