QUOTES FROM THE FILM
"All ruling classes are based on merit … the problem is, how do you define merit?” —LEWIS LAPHAM
“My lord… Of course, there’s a ruling class, and it’s based on money. It’s a very simple problem: You can buy a jet plane of your own, or you can buy a president.” —KURT VONNEGUT
“Leadership is just knowing what to do, and then doing it.” —JAMES A. BAKER III
“Recognize that the phrase ‘national interest’ is a synonym for ‘self-interest,’ and you will find no moral obstacle that cannot be removed from the highway of ambition.” —LEWIS LAPHAM
“There are no movies anymore, there is only content — content and distribution. Because if you are a great writer, you’ll create a brand! In a word, sales. ‘And who do we do it for, Mike?’ Six multinational, hyper-diversified, interlocking, globe-straddling oligopolies. Today six; tomorrow three, then two, then one.” —MIKE MEDAVOY
“Remember Voltaire: ‘The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundance of the poor.’ It’s a law of economics as old as supply and demand.” —LEWIS LAPHAM
“The real philanthropists in our society are the people who work for less than they can actually live on. Because they are giving of their time and their energy and their talents, all the time, so that people like you can be dressed well and fed cheaply and so on. They are giving to you.” —BARBARA EHRENREICH
“It’s like this: Imagine a big seesaw and one end is on the ground because its got a basket half-full of rocks in it; the other end is up in the air because it’s got a basket one-quarter full of sand. And some of us got teaspoons, and we’re trying to fill it, and of course, most people are kind of scoffing at us. They say, ‘Don’t you see it’s leaking, just as quick as you’re puttin’ it in? People like you have been trying for centuries, but it’s never going to change.’ And we say, ‘You might be right, but we think we’re getting more people with teaspoons all the time, and one of these days that whole seesaw is going to go zooop!’ And people say, ‘Gee, how did it happen so suddenly?’ Us and all our little teaspoons over the centuries. Who knows…” —PETE SEEGER
