I don’t want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.
Dependency arguments often come from elites – either aid agencies or governments – and say something about attitudes to poor people.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks.
No-one will protect us unless we learn to protect us ourselves… Our army should become one of the elites of Ukrainian society… The word ‘general’ should not be associated with the word ‘corruption’ but the word ‘hero.’
Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.
Policing was developed, created, and implemented for the elite, and – in the case of the United States – the elites were and almost entirely remain white, upper middle class, cisgender straight men.
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them – the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
In the public eye, being a victim of past injustices does not win the right to propagate current and future ones, and that’s intolerable to those in charge of the race industry today, whose power relies on maintaining forever a latent rage that can be turned on and off at the will of the nation’s elites.
In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture’s elites, on the other hand, encourage their children to do just about anything else.
You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps above a peasant, basically.
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.
The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.
I went into writing ‘The Young Elites’ with a great deal of fear – I’d been told repeatedly that a villain’s story would be far too dark for young readers to want and that no one would like my villainess, Adelina. I braced myself for epic failure.
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else’s dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country’s elites.
Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.
In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
If you’re white working class, it’s very easy to caricature the elites, and if you’re elite, it’s very easy to caricature the white working class.
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