“If you are somebody that believes the President of the United States has the power to order your fellow citizens murdered, assassinated, killed without a shred of due process, then you are really declaring yourself to be as pure of an authoritarian as it gets.” --- Glenn Greenwald slams the assassination by US drone attack of radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, in northern Yemen. (Democracy Now, Sept 30)

“After 30 years of having our living standards decrease while the wealthiest one percent have had it better than ever, I think it’s time for maybe, I don’t know, some participation in our democracy that isn’t funded by news cameras and gentlemen such as yourself.” --- Occupy Wall Street participant Jesse LaGraca in a blistering exchange with Fox News reporter and notorious Tea Party booster, Griff Jenkins. Unsurprisingly, Fox did not broadcast this must-watch interview. (The Raw Story, Oct 3)

“You need to send out a slew of indictments, all at once, and on 3 p.m. on a sunny day, have Federal Marshalls perp-walk 300 Wall Street executives out of their office in handcuffs and out on the street, with lots of cameras rolling. Everyone else would say, ‘If that happened to me, my mother would be ashamed.’” --- Imprisoned insider trader Dennis Levine tells the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance how to fight fraud in high finance. (Toronto Star, Oct 7)

“You sound like Fox News” --- Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges responds to an on-air attack by Kevin O’Leary on CBC. O’Leary called Hedges a “left-wing nutbar.” One hopes CBC will learn that hiring right-wing talking heads like O’Leary won’t save it from Harper’s axe. (CBC, Oct 10)

“They would have a great desire, this government, when they find somebody they consider the enemy, they not only want to smite them, they want to smite them mightily.” --- Ned Franks, a professor emeritus of political studies at Queen’s University, calls out the Harper government’s bully handling of Air Canada workers. (Toronto Star, Oct 12)