"You're standing in the cold wind of Pittsburgh, wearing an ill-fitting suit from a thrift store, with a one hundred and thirty thousand-dollar student loan bill in your pocket."
"You have no manor, no trust fund, no father on the board of a railroad company. You have no classmates in Washington and no relatives in New York."
"Your so-called independence weighs no more than a speck of dust on the scales of power. All it would take is a single breath from Carter Wright or Morganfield, and you'd vanish from this world without a trace."
"In this cruel game, capital is the price of admission. I come with my own capital, so I get to be a player. You, on the other hand, come empty-handed."
"When a poor kid wants to change the world, his only way out is to first sell himself to a willing buyer, borrow their capital, and fight for a chance to flip his fortunes."
"You want to change this country? You want to topple oligarchs like Morganfield? You want to win real rights for your people?"
