Unwinding Quotes by George Packer

I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap…

— George Packer

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was…

— George Packer

Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.

— George Packer

Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises…

— George Packer

“In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called “the real America,”…

— George Packer

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

— George Packer

The Olympics are never just about sports.

— George Packer

'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in…

— George Packer

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

— George Packer

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to…

— George Packer

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

— George Packer

Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores…

— George Packer

Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of…

— 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 huge Eugene…

— George Packer

When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like…

— George Packer