George Packer Quotes - Page 3

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• Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

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  Roaring, Bills, Economy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

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  America, Trump, Knows

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• We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

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  Talking, Trump, Knows

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• It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.

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  Party, Hands, Class

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• We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no, no, bring it out because that's the energy we need in order to reverse all these horrible things that have been happening in America.

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  Dark, Order, America

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2016.

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• I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

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  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

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  War, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises with the opposition in the back rooms. That's what she did in Congress. It's what I imagine she'll try to do in the White House.

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  Believe, White, House

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• If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?

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  Country, Political, President

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• The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.

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  Country, Thinking, Class

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• When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.

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  People, Speech, Trump

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• We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know, what used to be called the white backlash or to, you know, the feelings of some white people that they're losing out and that the jobs and power and sort of the culture is drifting away from them and toward people who don't look like them, who don't - who they don't know very well. And that's not necessarily - I don't equate that with the hardcore ideological hatred of self-identified racists.

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  Jobs, Self, White

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• Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

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  Class, Answers, Economic

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• I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.

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  Thinking, Class, Voice

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• I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

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  Party, College, Keys

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.

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  Jobs, School, College

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• Hillary Clinton would say I'm going to fund a program that will find the local, you know, industrial or manufacturing jobs that are available and train you to do that job. And then you're going to get that job. And it's a much more of a nuts and bolts sort of policy vision.

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  Jobs, Nuts, Vision

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• Playing to resentment and using a lot of, you know, grand abstract phrases like make America great again is - it just doesn't have the answer. It's simply a way to whip up emotion and then leave people more bitter than you found them.

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  America, People, Phrases

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• I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close the door and say you are beyond redemption.

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  Doors, Democracy, Redemption

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• The ranks of educated professional swelled as more Americans went to college and more Americans sort of adopted a more cosmopolitan lifestyle and worldview. And as the Democrats were looking for an alternative to the unions who no longer seemed like a large enough base for the party, they found the educated who veered more toward a progressive cultural outlook, who may have had - may have been working in the financial sector, in entertainment, in media, in universities. That became really the rank and file of the Democratic Party over a long period of time.

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  Party, College, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

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  Thinking, Ebb And Flow, People

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• We've just been sort of spinning our wheels for such a long time, for decades really, with each new president being considered illegitimate by the other side. That's been the case ever since Bill Clinton. And it's a - you can't keep frittering away your political capital that way and expect there not to be some long-term rot that sets in.

  George Packer

  Long, Political, President

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