The studios are kind of like Detroit before the bailout.

said by Steven Soderbergh in remarks to the San Francisco International Film Festival

The companies that wrote us off as workers now write us off as consumers.

said by Barbara Garson in "Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession"

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

said by John Kenneth Galbraith in 2002

The White House had a defeatist mantra: This is tough. We need to do it. But we’re probably going to lose.

said by Maureen Dowd in "No Bully in the Pulpit," New York Times

If cable companies had been allowed to wire Kansas City on Google’s terms from the start, then broadband connections would be about as common on the low-income east side as Neiman-Marcus stores.

said by Michael Hiltzik in "When Public Infrastructure Goes Private," Los Angeles Times

It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.

said by Warren Buffet in a CNN Interview

I know folks have a lot of opinions about what happened in November. But seriously, how many conferences and lunch panels do we really need to have about it? I’m starting to wonder if the caterers union is behind it.

said by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell in his CPAC address

Our capacity for overlooking the obvious is enormous.

said by I.F. Stone in The Best of I.F. Stone

Today’s Dow Jones euphoria will inevitably give way to tomorrow’s crash, because the fruits of average workers’ labor flowed upward to Dimon and Blankfein and Peterson, not outward to Smith, Jones and Gonzales.

said by Michael Hiltzik in The Los Angeles Times

The survival of most Republican members of Congress depends on primary victories, not general elections — and their likely primary competitors are more to the right than they are.

said by Robert Reich in his blog