"As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history."

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Source : "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

Christina Romer

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Class Quotes

“The steady state of disks is full.”
“I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take...”
“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
“A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.”

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“If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.”
“For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.”
“Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.”
“Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.”

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