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George Packer
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George Packer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 13
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
George Packer
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
George Packer
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.
George Packer
I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.
George Packer
Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.
George Packer
We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.
George Packer
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.
George Packer
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.
George Packer
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.
George Packer
You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
George Packer
When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.
George Packer
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
George Packer
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
George Packer
This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.
George Packer
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.
George Packer
This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.
George Packer
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?
George Packer
When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or black or often is - that means he's galvanizing a kind of mob spirit, which is also a racial mob spirit.
George Packer
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
George Packer
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
George Packer