"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."
― Barney Frank
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― Barney Frank
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More In Power
- "The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act."― Charles Hodge
- "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."― Felix Frankfurter
- "There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power."― Paul Wellstone