Famously
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Society, Margaret Thatcher once
famously
declared, doesn’t exist.
Inspiring Economic GrowthNEW HAVEN – In his First Inaugural Address, during the depths of the Great Depression, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
famously
told Americans that, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
In the US, Alexander Hamilton
famously
negotiated the federal assumption of states’ debt in 1790, but many states behaved badly in the early nineteenth century, with multiple bankruptcies, until they adopted laws or amendments to their constitutions requiring balanced budgets.
The Paranoid Style in Chinese PoliticsHONG KONG – Henry Kissinger, who learned a thing or two about political paranoia as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser and Secretary of State,
famously
said that even a paranoid has real enemies.
But, as Margaret Thatcher
famously
said, “[…] there’s no such thing as society.
President Hassan Rouhani
famously
promised a domestic version of the deal to heal Iran’s political wounds, and to further address its economic woes.
Al Gore, for example,
famously
claimed that a whopping six meters (20 feet) of sea-level rise would flood major cities around the world.
Wallis Simpson, the controversial US-born Duchess of Windsor, once
famously
quipped, “You can never be too rich or too thin.”
He was
famously
protectionist during the primaries, declaring he would unilaterally rewrite NAFTA.
“All great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice,” Karl Marx
famously
wrote, “the first time as tragedy, second as farce.”
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II
famously
asked the faculty at the London School of Economics in November 2008, just after the financial crisis erupted.
“If all the economists were laid end to end,” George Bernard Shaw
famously
quipped, “they would not reach a conclusion.”
US Supreme Court Judge Louis Brandeis
famously
argued for “the states as laboratories.”
Compare Park to Corazon Aquino, who, when elected President of the Philippines,
famously
remarked that she was simply a housewife, not a professional politician or an experienced leader.
Or, as the psychiatrist Zvi Rex
famously
quipped, “Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”
The intellectual father of the euro, Columbia University’s Robert Mundell, once
famously
opined that the optimal number of currencies in the world is an odd number, preferably less than three.
In drawing Africa's internal borders, imperialists ignored tribal differences, leaving some densely populated countries, such as Nigeria, without a dominant tribe or splitting
famously
cohesive tribes, such as the Ewe, between two countries (Ghana and Togo).
MOSCOW – In 1811, assessing the possibility – or, rather, the impossibility – of Russia ever undergoing a Western-style transformation, the diplomat and counter-Enlightenment philosopher Joseph de Maistre
famously
wrote, “Every nation has the government it deserves.”
One doomed officer
famously
declared, “You can’t hang us all.”
Indeed, in the fourth century BC, the statesman and reformer Shang Yang
famously
asserted that, “When the prince violates the law, the crime he commits is the same as that of the common people.”
FRANKFURT – Konrad Adenauer, Germany’s first chancellor after World War II,
famously
said: “Why should I care about the things I said yesterday?”
When he ran against Reagan for the Republican nomination in 1980, he
famously
called such claims “voodoo economics.”
As Keynes
famously
said, “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.”
The North Korea crisis is not a classic “hawk-dove game” – or a game of chicken, which Bertrand Russell
famously
used to analyze nuclear strategy – in which the side that makes an uncompromising commitment to aggression wins.
But this is precisely the so-called "supply side" argument that the President's father once
famously
mocked as "voodoo" economics when Ronald Reagan expounded it.
As Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill once
famously
agreed: “When all is said and done, Great Britain is an island, France the cape of a continent;America another world.”
This argument inspired proposals – most
famously
by John Maynard Keynes in 1942 – to create “buffer stocks” for the main commodities, which would take supply off the market when prices fell, and add to supply when prices rose.
Europe’s Top-Down MyopiaMUNICH – The French statesman Georges Clemenceau
famously
remarked that, “Generals always fight the last war.”
Two months later, Twitter
famously
helped Iranians assemble and share information during their election protests.
The Capitalist Threat to CapitalismLONDON – Winston Churchill
famously
observed that democracy is the worst form of government – apart from all the others that have been tried.
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