Quotes by George Packer

"Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing."

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"The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up."

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"It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics."

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"Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know."

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