Ownership Society quotables

Michael Abramowitz in the Washington Post:

This is probably not the ownership society that Bush had in mind.

Eli Broad:

“I think there’s a multiplier effect. What smart, entrepreneurial philanthropists and their foundations do is get greater value for how they invest their money than if the government were doing it.”

Diane Ravitch on the "business model" approach to schooling:

It appears that the purpose of the Broad research laboratory at Harvard is to continue the Broad Foundation’s campaign to bring business methods to the schools. What a strange irony that this would occur at the very time that our financial system teeters on the brink of disaster! Do we really want the same “data-driven approach” in our schools?

Maureen Dowd on the new "socialism":

Who would have dreamed that when socialism finally came to the U.S.A. it would be brought not by Bolsheviks in blue jeans but Wall Street bankers in Gucci loafers?