In Quotes

- Naomi Klein, The Guardian, 19 Sep 2008:
“Whatever the events of this week mean, nobody should believe the overblown claims that the market crisis signals the death of "free market" ideology. Free market ideology has always been a servant to the interests of capital, and its presence ebbs and flows depending on its usefulness to those interests.”

- Noam Chomsky, BBC, 19 Sep 2008:
“The unprecedented intervention of the Fed may be justified or not in narrow terms, but it reveals, once again, the profoundly undemocratic character of state capitalist institutions, designed in large measure to socialise cost and risk and privatize profit, without a public voice.”

- Bernard Barber, Secretary-General, TUC, speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton on 8 September, 2008:
“If [the government] can spend billions on consultants and tax breaks for British business, then surely it can find money to give teachers, prison officers, civil servants and local government workers fair pay.”

- Liam Byrn, Immigration Minister, trying to justify why asylum-seeking children are detained in response to the New Statesman's newly launched 'No place for children' campaign, New Statesman, 11 Sep 2008:
“Nobody wants to detain children. So, why does it happen? As a parent myself of three small children, I have a simple motive. I insist that we keep families together and not split them up.”