Greg Palast Quotes

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized. ~ Greg Palast

I want my fair share and thats All of it! ~ Greg Palast

You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America. ~ Greg Palast

As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went. ~ Greg Palast

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. ~ Greg Palast

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined. ~ Greg Palast

I love this book. When other U.S. reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. Leopold is a journalist who insists on real investigative reporting–inside documents, inside sources, hard knife-in-the-gut evidence–detective-style reporting that is just about illegal in the U.S.A. Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold. Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot. ~ Greg Palast

Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it."
-Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest) ~ Greg Keyes

For that sun, which we see rising every day, rises at His command… - Greg Tobin, The Wisdom of St. Patrick from St. Patrick's Confession ~ St. Patrick

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls. ~ Greg Mortenson

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails. ~ Greg Berlanti

If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug. ~ Greg Proops

Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever. ~ Greg Anderson

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues. ~ Greg Giraldo

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu ~ Greg Mortenson

Higher saving leads to faster growth ... ~ Greg Mankiw

Parties are not my thing; I keep it low-key. ~ Greg Wise

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world. ~ Greg Laurie

Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally. ~ Greg Lake

Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend ~ Greg Keyes

Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears. ~ Greg Behrendt

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries. ~ Greg Boyle

We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together. ~ Greg Reid

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ~ Greg Egan

I feel life is to be lived. You want to spend your time doing things and being with friends and all that. ~ Greg Fitzsimmons

You are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person. ~ Greg Behrendt

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET. ~ Greg Giraldo

In my whole life, when I've watched TV and movies, I've almost always felt, 'I could do that better,' and I thought everyone felt that way. ~ Greg Poehler

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail. ~ Greg Abbott

I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere. ~ Greg Gutfeld

The word priority was singular for 500 years - what does priorities mean - 'many many first things.' ~ Greg McKeown

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. ~ Greg Kinnear

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain. ~ Greg Iles

I said, 'The truth is whatever you can get away with.' 'No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape. ~ Greg Egan

I love my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, but I'd take a bullet for my parents or my sister without a second thought."
"Dude," Greg whispered,"you wouldn't take one for your granny?"
"No one's going to shoot my grandma," Jace said dismissively. ~ Jay Bell

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations - particularly when the something you're fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs. ~ Greg Bear

You shoulda married someone, a whole lot more like you
drink coffee in the little cafes, and you could go out shopping too.
I shoulda married someone, who likes to camp and fish, and make love for two days straight, And you say, "don't you wish".
You drive me crazy, with all the things you do and do not do. Umm, I love you so much, I'm gonna drive you crazy too. ~ Greg Brown

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees. ~ Greg Iles

There was a short pause before Elizabeth gasped, finally understanding his meaning, "You did that? You put up those pictures of that senator? The naked selfies on the house dot gov main page?"
"I did no such thing." Greg sounded and looked insulted, then added, "Alex did it. I was merely the Pinky to his Brain. ~ Penny Reid

Always be classy. Never be crazy. ~ Greg Behrendt

I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,- Greg ~ Lynsay Sands

By afternoon, a dense crowd had gathered around the Bedford as word spread that an enormous infidel in brown pajamas was loading a truck full of supplies for Muslim schoolchildren ... Mortenson's size-fourteen feet drew a steady stream of bouncing eyebrows and bawdy jokes from onlookers. Spectators shouted guesses at Mortenson's nationality as he worked. Bosnia and Chechnya were deemd the most likely source of this large mangy-looking man. When Mortenson, with his rapidly improving Urdu, interrupted the speculation to tell them he was American, the crowd looked at his sweat-soaked and dirt-grimed shalwar, at his smudged and oily skin, and several men told him they didn't think so. ~ Greg Mortenson

Humans believe in nothingness, in zeros. It is one of their distinguishing traits. They keep inventing nothing. Forerunners know otherwise. ~ Greg Bear

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could. ~ Greg Ginn

At last it faded away, and the mushroom cloud began to disperse. Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed. ~ Ken Follett

I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden. ~ Greg Poehler

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money. ~ Greg Curtis

So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too. ~ Greg Gutfeld