The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, … - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

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The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

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While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

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Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. . . They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits.

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Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

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We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

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