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Liberal World Order, R.I.P.NEW DELHI – After a run of nearly one thousand years, quipped the French philosopher and writer Voltaire, the fading Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.
America’s Hidden DebtWASHINGTON, DC – Former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers recently quipped that, “Fiscal stimulus is like a drug with tolerance effects; to keep growth constant, deficits have to keep getting larger.”
“The pictorial symbol” of the Washington Consensus, quipped C. Fred Bergsten, “was the colonial posture assumed by the Managing Director of the IMF as the President of Indonesia....signed his diktat.”
Le Pen often quipped during the French presidential campaign that, “Whatever the election results, France will be governed by a woman: It will be either me or the chancellor of Germany.”
The Productivity of TrustCAMBRIDGE – The Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman once quipped that “Canada is essentially closer to the United States than it is to itself.”
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reputedly quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Second-class intellect, but first-class temperament.”
As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was reported to have quipped when confronted with routine European criticism on corruption and organized crime, “Mafia is not a Russian word.”
Then again, as Upton Sinclair famously quipped, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
The Year of Rational PessimismNEW YORK – Someone recently quipped that the best thing about 2011 was that it was likely better than 2012.
El Salvador’s Democratic TestBack in his radical days, Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, famously quipped that if voting changed anything, they would abolish it.
One could quote the great economist Paul Samuelson, who famously quipped in the 1960s that the stock market had “predicted nine of the last five recessions.”
“The Ebola virus should know better than to visit that place,” observers quipped.
Europe's Groucho ProblemGroucho Marx once famously quipped that he did not want to join any club that would have him as a member.
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music," George Bernard Shaw once quipped.
After all, everyone understood who the “welfare cheat” was, and who Kristol had in mind when he famously quipped that a neo-conservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
But the irony was not lost on Wendy Sherman, the JCPOA’s senior US negotiator, who quipped recently that she had always expected “the greatest challenge to the deal’s success would be violations by Iran, not the political machinations of the president of the United States.”
These “dogmatic liberal” skeptics see America, as the late Roh once quipped, through the prism of the 1980’s, when the US backed the South Korean dictatorship.
Back in 1987, Nobel laureate Robert Solow famously quipped, “You can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics.”
In 2010, two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Christine Lagarde, then-France’s finance minister, quipped that the crisis would have been less painful if “Lehman Sisters” had been managing the store.
Speaking at Stanford University’s 2013 commencement, he quipped, “I believe that more and more Stanford graduates will find themselves moving to Silicon Alley, not only because we’re the hottest new tech scene in the country, but also because there’s more to do on a Friday night than go to the Pizza Hut in Sunnyvale.
The iconoclastic British historian A. J. P. Taylor quipped that laments about the decline of Britain were really generalized reflections of Oxford academics’ view of the “servant problem.”
The Problem with Politicians as HistoriansSTANFORD – “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” quipped Mark Twain.
“I’m told the definition of the Democratic Party is Reform Judaism without the holidays,” he reportedly quipped backstage at the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial conference in 2011.
Solidarity Is Not What Europe NeedsATHENS – Even if Britain and America were never really divided by a common language, as George Bernard Shaw once quipped, contemporary Europe is certainly divided by a single word that was meant to represent the European Union’s foundation stone: solidarity.
Lord Hastings Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, famously quipped that the Alliance’s mission was to “keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
As one of them quipped to me, “I do not want to live under Putin, but I want my leader to be like Putin.”
President John F. Kennedy famously quipped that “A rising tide lifts all boats.”
How to Avoid a W-Shaped RecessionCAMBRIDGE – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana famously quipped in 1905.
As the anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist famously quipped, “I don’t want to abolish government.
As the economist Paul Samuelson once reportedly quipped, if real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates were zero and expected to remain so, it would be profitable to flatten the Rocky Mountains just to reduce transportation costs.
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