Culture follows power.
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.
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.
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.
ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.
No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
I think that liberals need to grow up.
Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
Alaska itself is an unusual state.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
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.
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
I'm largely in favor of financial reform.
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.
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.
It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.
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.
I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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