Political Quotes

“Well, there is, absolutely, such a powerful connection because the authoritarian doesn't care about the fundamental programs for the people because they don't feel they are accountable to the people. So just as our authoritarian President is weaponizing the judiciary to go after his opponents, he is using the power of the government over licenses and mergers in order to try to control what broadcasting does to attack freedom of speech, trying to control what our universities teach by threatening the collapse--threatening and taking away the research grants and telling them they can't have foreign students that are essential to their revenue streams. All of those authoritarian pieces--the stealing of the purse--but then there is this piece, the philosophy, and the philosophy is: The people owe me, the authoritarian; not I am accountable to them. So, therefore, it is totally legit to go for legislation that slashes the programs that are fundamental to families to make the rich richer. And I want to go back to that picture that I had up earlier of the billionaires standing behind President Trump at the inauguration. And at that point, maybe we didn't know for sure that he had campaigned on helping families. But we didn't see champions of families behind him. We saw the billionaires behind him. That is exactly what has happened. The philosophy is: Families lose and billionaires win.”