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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.
Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.
People have been savaged by a predatory economic and political system, and some are turning to Trump. Unfortunately, Trump is just more of the same.
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
