Political Quotes

“let me get to the point at hand. I am back now for the 27th time to call attention to the rightwing billionaires' scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court and connect it to things that are going on at the Court right now. The billionaire elite that captured our Supreme Court wants to use it to attack Americans' ability--our ability as a people--through regulation, to protect our own health and safety, and the goal, mostly, is to benefit the big polluters in their midst. A word on regulation: As modern innovations have raised the standard of living in the United States and around the world and corporations have grown to international behemoths and billionaires have claimed for themselves a larger and larger share of the world's wealth, regulation has come to have a very important role. Big corporations' well-known motive to maximize profits, I should say, inevitably causes dangers to society. If you think of a big industrial plant that without oversight would leach chemical byproducts into the soil and water, poison wells, and spread cancer, you have got an idea of why regulation is needed. Over many decades, Congress created administrative Agencies to perform this task, staffed by scientists and other experts to use their expertise to manage and rein in these industrial dangers. The American system of regulation made our society safer and more prosperous. Period.…”