Quotes
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- This is not John Wayne’s America. This is Gordon Gekko’s America. In fact, I’m pretty sure that if [John Wayne] faced one of these CEOs in a John Ford film, he’d kick some ass and force the leech to start treating his workers fair.
- My personal view is, why don’t you get out there and try to do something about the things that you don’t like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream. But if you want to yell and scream, we’ll make sure you can do it.
- This is not a battle of borders; this is one of worldviews. It goes back to Isaac and Ishmael, and it’s not going to be changed by a couple of presidents or prime ministers.
- We Americans, and I think it's true of democracies generally, are not great at winning long, long wars because people in democracies get impatient and they say, ‘Why must we keep having our soldiers die? What are we getting out of it?’
- War and moralism are uneasy bedfellows, and “low risk” conflicts often turn out to be anything but.
- You can’t turn the wind, so turn the sail.
- There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.
- We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
- The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
- The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).
- As we embrace new technology that does everything but kiss us on the mouth, we risk cutting ourselves off from human interaction.
- We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.