America Gdp Quote by John Micklethwait

“The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance…

— John Micklethwait

“If the United States sinks into political paralysis, its epitaph could well be, “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

— John Micklethwait

“Not many people in Washington are thinking beyond the 2016 presidential election. It is sometimes argued that an American administration operates strategically for only…

— John Micklethwait

“If the eurozone collapses, its epitaph should be the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, in 2007: “We all know…

— John Micklethwait

“there is some evidence that governments are getting even more sluggish. It took America four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge, starting in…

— John Micklethwait

“The British general election of 2010 returned only three MPs to the Commons who described their professions as “science or research” (compared with thirty-eight barristers).”

— John Micklethwait

“George Bernard Shaw once quipped that politicians can always rely on Paul’s vote if they give him money that they steal from Peter. This…

— John Micklethwait

“We live and do business in the Information Age,” Barack Obama once complained, “but the last major reorganization of the government happened in the…

— John Micklethwait

“This is only the beginning of a huge “Copernican revolution” (to borrow a phrase from Matthew Taylor, one of Tony Blair’s advisers) that is…

— John Micklethwait

“So in both the West and the emerging world the state is in trouble. The mystery is why so many people assume that radical…

— John Micklethwait

“the “compendium of learning” set in motion by the Ming Emperor Yongle (1360–1424), which drew on the talents of more than two thousand scholars…

— John Micklethwait

“Vagueness about numbers is a curse of the public sector. In the worst cases it borders on the criminal. Challenged to find one reliable…

— John Micklethwait

“Berlusconi is us,” as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.”

— John Micklethwait

“There are thirty-two closed-circuit television cameras near the flat where George Orwell wrote 1984. The night watchman standing guard at the gate has become…

— John Micklethwait

“Transparency was a guardian of frugality, just as confusion had been a handmaiden of extravagance.”

— John Micklethwait