"Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many."
Publilius Syrus
“And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”
Dick Durbin, US Senator From Illinois
"And there is a kind of an 'ok guys, you're mad, how are you going to stop me' mentality at the top."
Robert Johnson, economist
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception