Countervailing Quotes

#1. The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

Cornel West

#2. The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

Henry Kissinger

#3. The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

Ben Bernanke

#4. The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

John Perry Barlow

#5. Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#6. In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

John Paul Stevens

#8. The notion of redefining the deity into something that works for you is grotesque.

Julian Barnes

#9. Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

James McBride

#10. I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

Kurt Cobain

#11. Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.

Keith Lazelle

#12. It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

Paul McCartney

#13. That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Kathy Acker

#14. Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Ronald Reagan

#15. You're recovering from a war, I had said one night. You're not yourself and won't be yourself again for a little while longer. The war was being fought internally, of course,

Christine Sneed