Quotes by George Packer

George Packer

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

American Politics

Men

Produce

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Character

Destiny

Scandal

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.

Fighting

Games

War

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

Broken

Party

Self

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.

College

Jobs

School

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.

Believe

House

White

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

American History

Thinking

Would Be

I don’t think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She’s an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

Choices

Imperfect

Thinking

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.

Ebb And Flow

People

Thinking

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.

Book

Reading

Thinking

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America

American History

American Politics

Apples

Baskets

Believe

Blood

Book

Broken

Campaigns

Character

Choices

Class

College

Country

Dark

Democracy

Destiny

Easy

Ebb And Flow

Feelings

Fighting

Games

Gay

Goodbye

Google

Government

Hands

Hard

Home

Hopeless

House

Ice Water

Imperfect

Jargon

Jobs

Long

Mass Destruction

Media

Men

Newts

Oil

Opinion

Order

Party

People

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Quotes by George Packer

George Packer

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

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.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I don’t think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She’s an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

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.

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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