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#1. A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

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#2. Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

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#3. If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

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#4. The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

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#5. Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission
it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.

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#6. I think that liberals need to grow up.

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#7. My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

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#8. Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

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#9. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

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#10. There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

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#11. If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

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#12. America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

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#13. The central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill.

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#14. On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

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#15. Alaska itself is an unusual state.

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#16. America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

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#17. The world is changing very profoundly.

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#18. It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

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#19. In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

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#20. The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

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#21. The real challenges that the country faces come from the winners, not the losers, of the new world.

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#22. If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

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#23. British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism

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#24. When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

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#25. Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

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#26. During the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps
let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In it own crisis, the West did exactly the opposite on all three fronts.

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#27. But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

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#28. In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

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#29. In fact, some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out

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#30. The solution is not that people need to major in marketing in college, but that their liberal education should be more structured and demanding. Majors should have some required sequence of basic courses, as in economics.

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#31. During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

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#32. Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the evolving system who will speak for the yet unborn, for the future.

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#33. If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

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#34. In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

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#35. Low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ...

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#36. Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

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#37. The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

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#38. The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

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#39. The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

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#40. One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

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#41. In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.

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#42. It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

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#43. What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

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#44. In thirty years Iraq too has gone from being among the most modern and secular of Arab countries -with women working, artists thriving, journalists writing- into a squalid playpen for a megalomaniac.

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#45. Victoria Principal - she

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#46. The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

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#47. Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

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#48. Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As we enter the twenty-first century, our task is to make democracy safe for the world.

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#49. I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

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#50. If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

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#51. The Yale report explained that the essence of liberal education was not to teach that which is peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation which is common to them all.

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#52. It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

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#53. Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

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#54. What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

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#55. If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

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#56. Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

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#57. Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

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#58. Liberal education should give people the skills that will help them get ready for their sixth job, not their first job.

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#59. I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

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#60. The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

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#61. But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

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#62. Liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.

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#63. Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation

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#64. The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

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#65. The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas - and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often.

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#66. I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

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#67. I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

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#68. The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

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#69. One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

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#70. Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.

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#71. The most recent edition of the test - called the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) - was conducted in 2012, and it found that among the OECD's thirty-four members, the United States ranked twenty-seventh, twentieth, and seventeenth in math, science, and reading, respectively.

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#72. Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

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#73. Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. "The strongest is never strong enough to be the master", Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, "unless he translates strength into right and obedience into duty". Only democracy has that authority in the world today.

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#74. The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher' ... Not that he would.

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#75. The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation.

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#76. The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.

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#77. I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

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#78. You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

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#79. The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

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#80. There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

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#81. Walter Lippmann was once asked his views on a particular topic, he is said to have replied, I don't know what I think on that one. I haven't written about it yet.

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#82. In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes.

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#83. Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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#84. Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

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#85. What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.

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#86. The basic problem for American workers of all ages has been that their hours and productivity keep rising but their wages do not.

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#87. American influence is not what it used to be.

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#88. The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

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#89. Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

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#90. I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

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#91. Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

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#92. I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

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#93. CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

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#94. The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

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#95. Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

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#96. The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

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#97. It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

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#98. There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

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#99. No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

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#100. Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

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