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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 McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

~George Packer

Topics: About American American Politics Been Cared Eight First Guess He Huge Interested Interesting Knew Mccarthy Politics Really Senator Since Supporter Year

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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

~George Packer

Topics: Broken Cliche Cliches Like Most Senate True

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Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

~George Packer

Topics: Acting Against Calculating Careers Clinton Close Come Destroyed Including Interests Many Nixon Obviously Own Politicians Supremely Talented Too Ways Were

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It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

~George Packer

Topics: Admit Campaign Fun Journalist Like Me Might Political Seem Sometime Wise

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As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.

~George Packer

Topics: Ability America Anyone Anything Become Behind Citizen Citizens Country Democracy Economically Equal Fallen Grown Less Longer Move Other Upward Western Where

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Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

~George Packer

Topics: American Buying Care Debt Draining Economy Education Forcing Fund Health Health Care Housing Incomes Inequality Power Rely Them Whose

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The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

~George Packer

Topics: Alan Economist Higher Income Income Inequality Inequality Levels Lower Mobility Princeton Social Societies

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

~George Packer

Topics: America Before Even Get Only Out Poor Population Reach Vast Walmart Working

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How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

~George Packer

Topics: Candidate Governs How President Runs Shapes

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I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

~George Packer

Topics: Able Always Am Connection Easy Established Father Going Having Never Rest I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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