Politics Quotes by George Packer

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a…

— George Packer

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the…

— George Packer

People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to…

— George Packer

How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

— George Packer

A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond…

— George Packer

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

— George Packer

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways…

— George Packer

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

— George Packer

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we…

— George Packer

“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on…

— George Packer

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

— George Packer

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

— George Packer

Politics should seize the imagination.

— George Packer

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of…

— George Packer

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

— George Packer

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to…

— George Packer

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

— George Packer

“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war…

— George Packer