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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
George Packer
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George Packer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 13
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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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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
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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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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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