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No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.
In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.
Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.
To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each other.
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered.
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.