Rigged Quotes

• Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Long, Folks

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life And Love, Winning, Games

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

  Donald Trump

  People, Able, Firsts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

  Eric Alterman

  Faces

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• People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Painful, Feels

  "What would a second Obama term look like?" by Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. September 08, 2012.

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• The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

  Arianna Huffington

  Games, Literature, Toss

  "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.

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• Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

  Norma Shearer

  Sensational

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• The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Games, Money And Power

  "Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Talks To ABC News' David Muir". Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. April 21, 2014.

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• People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Income, Wages

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Beautiful, Flower, Orchids

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No longer can we rely on those same people in the media and politics who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place. Instead, we must choose to believe in America.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Media, America

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

  Matt Taibbi

  Apology, Player, Hands

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.

  Bill Bonner

  Leader, Way, World

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• On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Cynical, Levels

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• The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Integrity, Spring

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• Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

  Jason Whitlock

  Queens, Kings, Pride

  "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.

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• My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

  David Hare

  Running, Father, Winning

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• Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

  Paul Krugman

  Hysteria, Benefits, Favors

  "Panic of the Plutocrats". www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2011.

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• With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose.

  Pat Buchanan

  Wall, Stupid, Winning

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• So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Games, Long, Victory

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• Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Powerful, Games, Needs

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• It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.

  Hillary Clinton

  Integrity, Men, Games

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Our World, Perfection

  "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54, 1985.

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