Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, let me say something: we sit back and we watch young people protest against the WTO. When they were up in Seattle, many people were just appalled at the fact that they staged the kind of protests that they did; and many people did not understand it, because they did not understand the WTO and the powers of the WTO. They did not understand that we have created this monstrous organization that is very much influenced by the multinational corporations of the world, many times overriding the will of elected bodies, legislatures, parliaments, and congresses. The young people get it. They understand something is not right. And that something is demonstrated here tonight. That something that they rally and they protest about is the fact that there is an organization that has the power to rule in favor of multinational corporations, to protect their patents, even when, even when these countries, who need the medicines, could produce their own. But the rules of this game say that, no, you cannot do it, because the multinational corporations do not like it. You are going to interfere with their ability to make a profit.”