"People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it."

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David Wessel

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.”
“I don't like concrete jungles.”
“But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.”
“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.”
“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”
“If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.”
“The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.”
“The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.”

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