Cabinet
Hawke sued the left faction for peace after his second election victory in 1984. ..he incorporated the left into his government; he moved from being a leader for two-thirds of the party to a leader for the whole party. Hawke’s aim was to tie the left into Cabinet’s economic discipline. His gameplan worked so well that he finished by tying the left into his own leadership.
Paul Kelly
Campaign funds
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for through organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money.
Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.
Theodore Roosevelt
Capital Funding
This report does not simply call for the maintenance of the status quo. It justifies the adequate capitalisation of all public enterprises, at the State, Local and Federal level, as a necessary pre-requisite for improving the performance of public enterprises. ...This is certainly not a rationale for privatisation; it is a rationale for reform and a realistic appreciation of the vital role which such enterprises have played, and must continue to play, in our social and economic development.
Peter Robson
Capitalism
Exchange value itself, in fact, has become bedevilled like everything else, and represents no longer utility, but the craving of lust, folly, vainty, gluttony and madness, technically described by genteel economists as ‘effective demand’... In the things that are wanted for the welfare of the people we are abjectly poor.
George Bernard Shaw
Catholicism
Don’t let them turn me into a Catholic Hardy
Fred Hollows
