Cronies Quotes

• Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

  Alan Greenspan

  Dark, Giving, People

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• I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Government, Personality

  "Thatcher warns of 'dictatorship'". www.cnn.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Prosperity, Economics

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

  Charles Koch

  Entrepreneur, Erode, Want

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Military, War, Drinking

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• I am against government by crony.

  Harold L. Ickes

  Government, Corruption

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Soulmate, Teaching

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• Comfort and indolence are cronies.

  Thomas Hood

  Comfort, Indolence

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• People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Decision, Resentment

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• Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

  Rick Bayan

  Appreciation, Art, Golf

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• Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

  Charles Barron

  School, Mean, Giving

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• What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Today, Socialism, Type

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Senior, Regret, Dirty

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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• Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Pessimist, Call Me, Resignation

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

  John Brown

  Dog, Baby, Thinking

  John Brown (1861). “Spare Hours (3)”, p.106, General Books

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• It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.

  Michelle Malkin

  Zero, Ideas, Diversity

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• If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

  Charles Krauthammer

  President, Nominations, United States

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2005.

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• Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

  Tom Hayden

  War, White, House

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.

  Monica Crowley

  Blow, Hitting, Safe

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• America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way.

  Mike Pence

  Russia, America, Political

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Hate, Russia, Kind

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• I do think - you look at actually what WikiLeaks came out with, most of it was just gossipy interest, except for like this Doug Band memo from a Clinton crony in black and white who explained the Clinton Foundation was a profit center for Bill Clinton and people around him.The Russians didn't make that up, that was all Hillary's [Clinton] vulnerability her own.

  Rich Lowry

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

  Bill Moyers

  Wall, Party, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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