quotes – Stephen Martino

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times.”
“Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.”
“If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program.”
“I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution…”
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
“…We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.”
“It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”
“The great task before our founders was putting into practice the ideal that government could simultaneously serve liberty and advance the common good. and Government, he believed, had an important role to play in advancing our common prosperity.”
“Political discussions, the kind at Occidental had once seemed so intense and purposeful, came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union”