"When I was governor we did mountain top removal, employed many, many more people because we had fewer huge machinery [sic] and didn’t dump anything over the sides of mountains We are the only state in the country given the ability to go ahead and strip, (hesitation) surface mine, (hesitation) mountaintop removal or whatever you want to call it without any federal supervision at all ....I happen to agree with you that those fifteen story things can be very destructive but you don’t have to use them and by not using them you can also employee a lot more people."
-- Senator Jay Rockefeller (in a response to a question by Julian Martin in a call-in show)
"... Professionalism is a powerful form of social control. By professionalism I mean the almost total immersion in one’s craft, being so absorbed in the day-to-day exercise of those skills, as to have little time, energy or will to consider what part those skills play in the total social scheme.
By social control I mean maintaining things as they are, preserving traditional arrangements, preventing any sharp change in how the society distributes wealth and power. Both in pre-modern and modern times, the basic combination for social control has been the same: force and deception.... The modern era has magnified enormously both elements: it has concentrated force more efficiently than ever before and it has used more sophisticated techniques for deception. The printing press, heralding the spread of knowledge to large sections of the population, made large-scale deception both necessary and possible, and in the last four centuries we have progressed from the printing press to color television ..."
– Howard Zinn, (from an address given in 1970 to the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists)