"The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and……" — Walter Russell Mead
"The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is."
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Walter Russell Mead
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13 Quotes by Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead has 13 quotes on this site.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to…
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an…
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and…
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a…
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not…
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue…
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in…
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The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate…
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well.…
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the…
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems…
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More Affluent Quotes
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds…
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on…
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A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply…
— Pope Francis
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of…
— Vaclav Smil
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled…
— John W. Gardner
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances,…
— Maurice Strong
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It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about…
— Cesar Chavez
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house…
— Eric Sevareid
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I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were…
— Unknown Author
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick.…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity…
— Duane Elgin
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