I.B. George Quotes

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

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.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

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.

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?

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close the door and say you are beyond redemption.

When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

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.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

We in Europe have great capacities.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.