Mark Mullen > Quotes

“On the other side of the gun debate we have those who wish to eliminate all guns. “Guns kill” is the battle cry. If that argument was true, we would have to label cars as “killers” since they take more lives in a year than guns. But the claim is false. There is no question that guns are deadly and were invented for one thing – to kill. But guns don’t think, they don’t plan, they don’t aim, and they don’t pull their own trigger. Guns are just a tool used by an owner to complete a task. Good people use guns for recreation and as insurance against evil. Bad people use guns to commit crimes. How a gun is used is not determined by the gun; it is determined by the holder of the gun. Period. There is nothing else to say on this point.”
― Mark Mullen, America: We Have The Country We Want

“Society benefits from the wealthy – they are not the cause of societal problems. They are just easy targets to blame.”
― Mark Mullen, America: We Have The Country We Want

“Now consider Google, one of the largest, richest, and respected companies in the world. Guess what – they don’t hire new college graduates based on SAT or GPA41. Google believes that top students lack “intellectual humility.” In other words when they make a mistake, “it’s not my fault.” For Google, the ability to learn from mistakes (like C students do), is more important than test scores or class rank. Google believes that top students seldom fail in school and, therefore, are deprived of the opportunity to learn from failure.”
― Mark Mullen, America: We Have The Country We Want

“Phonics was used to teach reading in America without question until the 1890s when John Dewey began a movement to change education from intellectual training to conditioning students to be obedient, conformist, non-thinkers. One of his disciples William Gray, dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Education, convinced the National Education Association that phonics instruction should be replaced with the look-say technique. (Look-say involves memorizing a whole word without recognizing the individual sounds of letters in the word. Committing the word to memory through repetition is a form of behavior conditioning.) In 1930 Scott Foresman published Gray’s new reader, Dick and Jane. These readers, or primers, soon gained dominance in American elementary schools.”
― Mark Mullen, Who Controls America

“Did you know that only about 35 percent of American fourth-graders are proficient in reading? That’s because colleges do not teach prospective teachers how to teach reading. When children can't read by the end of third grade, they're unlikely to ever read beyond a very basic early childhood level. That is why more than 8,000 students quit high school every day, limiting their lifetime earning potential and putting a strain on welfare related services.[3]  The sad part of this is a few university elites planned for this result. And Congress helped them. Together, they don’t want smart kids. Actually, they don’t want smart adults.”
― Mark Mullen, Who Controls America

“the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered...”
― Mark Mullen, Who Controls America

“Because of Wall Street companies are afraid to reinvest profits in research, job creation and increased employee wages. Instead, they use their cash to buyback stocks or sit on it in banks accounts just to appease Wall Street analytics. These actions hurt the economy, and they hurt the average American by keeping money out of circulation. Spending is the engine of any economy.”
― Mark Mullen, Who Controls America