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> [Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/larry-summers-i-think-he-had-a-long-history-of-arrogance-and-relative/)

[Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/)

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> [“Larry Summers is one such rare insider. His question to me was in fact an invocation to reject the lure of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yanis-varoufakis/larry-summers-is-one-such-rare-insider-his-question-to-me-was-in-fact/)

[Yanis Varoufakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yanis-varoufakis/)

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> [“He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-suskind/he-larry-summers-can-frame-arguments-with-such-force-and-conviction/)

[Ron Suskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-suskind/)

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> [“Larry (Summers - director of the National Economic Council) taught me two very important lessons. The first: Never judge a book by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alyssa-mastromonaco/larry-summers-director-of-the-national-economic-council-taught-me-two/)

[Alyssa Mastromonaco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alyssa-mastromonaco/)

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> [Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-gigot/larry-summers-is-to-modesty-what-madonna-is-to-chastity/)

[Paul Gigot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-gigot/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/paul-gigot-37383_chastity_larry-summers-is-to-modesty-what-madonna_2131514.png)

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