While the poor people sleepin — Steely Dan

"Times are hard, Youre afraid to pay the fee. So you find yourself somebody Who can do the job for free. When you need a bit of lovin, Cause your man is out of town, Thats the time you get me runnin And you know Ill be around.Im a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah. I dont wanna do your dirty work No more. Im a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah."

"Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again."

"You been tellin me youre a genius Since you were seventeen. In all the time Ive known you, I still dont know what you mean. The weekend at the college Didnt turn out like you planned. The things that pass for knowledge I cant understand.Are you reelin in the years? Stowin away the time? Are you gatherin up the tears? Have you had enough of mine?"

"Now you swear and kick and beg us That youre not a gamblin man. Then you find youre back in Vegas With a handle in your hand. Your black cards can make you money, So you hide them when youre able. In the land of milk and honey You must put them on the table.You go back, Jack do it again, Wheel turnin round and round. You go back, Jack do it again."

"It was still September When your daddy was quite surprised To find you with the working girls In the county jail. I was smoking with the boys upstairs When I heard about the whole affair. I said oh no, William and Mary wont do.Well I did not think the girl Could be so cruel. And Im never going back To my old school."

"Ill learn to work the saxophone. Ill play just what I feel. Drink Scotch whiskey all night long, And die behind the wheel. They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide; Call me Deacon Blues."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs."

"The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it."

"I should say that when people talk about capitalism its a bit of a joke. Theres no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free market, free market discipline. Free markets are for others. Like, the Third World is the Third World because they had free markets rammed down their throat. Meanwhile, the enlightened states, England, the United States, others, resorted to massive state intervention to protect private power, and still do. Thats right up to the present. I mean, the Reagan administration for example was the most protectionist in post-war American history. Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and intervention: computers, the internet, telecommunication, automation, pharmaceutical, you just name it. Run through it, and you find massive ripoffs of the public, meaning, a system in which under one guise or another the public pays the costs and takes the risks, and profit is privatized. Thats very remote from a free market. Free market is like what India had to suffer for a couple hundred years, and most of the rest of the Third World."

"I appeal to all pupils, students and young people, asking you to focus on the horizons that are opening up for you, and which you could only dream of a year ago. Our future will depend on your desire for education and moral values as well as on your entrepreneurial spirit."

"We have created a wealthy society with tens of millions of talented, resourceful individuals who play virtually no role whatsoever as citizens. Bringing these people in — with their networks of influence, their knowledge, and their resources — is the key to creating the capacity for shared intelligence that we need to solve our problems."