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No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

~George Packer

Topics: America Began First Gave Grip Held No-One Say Secure Shifting Sometime Together Way

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Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?

~George Packer

Topics: Accountants Basic Be True Could Doctors Government Government Officials Happen Journalists Judges Lawyers Least Most Officials Professionals Same Secrecy Shrinks Tasks Those True Veil Who Why Without

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It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.

~George Packer

Topics: Because Being Cash Hand Hottest Me Occurred Old Problems Solving Startups Suddenly Tech Them Thinks Up Who Years

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Certain murderous ideas are in the air worldwide, and they are finding individuals in scattered places in different ways, and every attack spreads them further, plants an idea in a new head.

~George Packer

Topics: Air Attack Certain Different Different Ways Every Finding Further Head Idea Ideas Individuals New Places Plants Scattered Spreads Them Ways Worldwide

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Liberal democracies like ours seem, for the most part, to have learned how to avoid meticulously planned mass-casualty plots with the complexity and scale of 9/11. But they don't know how to keep their citizens safe at night clubs and concerts, in supermarkets, on beachfront promenades, from truck drivers.

~George Packer

Topics: Avoid Citizens Clubs Complexity Concerts Democracy Drivers How Keep Know Learned Liberal Like Most Night Ours Part Planned Plots Safe Scale Seem Truck

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

~George Packer

Topics: Afghanistan Assistance Borders Give Neighbors Police Sanctuary

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If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.

~George Packer

Topics: Assume Both Both Parties Cash Chairs Competition International Officials Parties Presidential Process Sports Taking Top Town Were Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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