Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. Richard Barnet More Quotes by Richard Barnet More Quotes From Richard Barnet America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way. Richard Barnet independent government america
