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" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "

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" Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress. "

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" I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius. "

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" Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure. "

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" You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. "

" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "

" Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy. "

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" Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? "

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" Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. "