Greg Grandin quote: "Like Hillary Clinton in the United States, Kuczynski is a prototypical member of the trans-American governing class, with deep roots in both the private and public sector and its revolving-door relationship between Washington think tanks, the State Department, and high-level Latin American ministries."

There was a brief moment, after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, when even Bill Clinton recognized what ...
GREG GRANDIN

As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting h...
GREG GRANDIN

Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt...
GREG GRANDIN

Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn't about the man...
GREG GRANDIN

Beyond institutional amnesia, a rejection of causal analysis is the existential rock on which Americ...
GREG GRANDIN

In 2015, El Salvador suffered nearly 50,000 cases of dengue. Cuba had 1641 cases, no deaths, and one...
GREG GRANDIN

In the early 1800s, both Spain and Portugal disseminated the smallpox vaccine throughout the America...
GREG GRANDIN

In particular, Kissinger was a key player during a transformative period of the imperial presidency,...
GREG GRANDIN

Just as much as the United States mattered to cotton, cotton mattered to the United States. Cotton r...
GREG GRANDIN

The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. An...
GREG GRANDIN

One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-confl...
GREG GRANDIN

Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization...
GREG GRANDIN

America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it ...
GREG GRANDIN

On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation ...
GREG GRANDIN

Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary...
GREG GRANDIN

Kissinger's unusually high body count and singular moral imperiousness has the effect, among his...
GREG GRANDIN

The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary range...
GREG GRANDIN

The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socia...
GREG GRANDIN

In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to ...
GREG GRANDIN

Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup a...
GREG GRANDIN

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the ...
GREG GRANDIN

Ronald Reagan, who led the larger New Right project of re-sanctifying U.S. foreign policy after its ...
GREG GRANDIN

'Toughness' and 'credibility' are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kiss...
GREG GRANDIN

Kissinger celebrants inevitably point to two things to justify their admiration: an opening to China...
GREG GRANDIN

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in La...
GREG GRANDIN

Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an impo...
GREG GRANDIN

Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that...
GREG GRANDIN

In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entre...
GREG GRANDIN

As she was about to run for president in 2008, Clinton opposed a free-trade agreement with Panama - ...
GREG GRANDIN

According to Colombia's respected Escuela Nacional Sindical, as of April 2015, 105 union activis...
GREG GRANDIN

Hillary Clinton became secretary of state under Barack Obama. It's hard to convey just how stunn...
GREG GRANDIN

Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America's new militarists, who would ju...
GREG GRANDIN

President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of...
GREG GRANDIN

Within days of Richard Nixon's inauguration in January 1969, national-security adviser Kissinger...
GREG GRANDIN

Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who i...
GREG GRANDIN

In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers makin...
GREG GRANDIN

Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black ...
GREG GRANDIN

Honduras in 2009 and Paraguay in 2012 were low-hanging fruit, small countries with outsized oligarch...
GREG GRANDIN

It is a job requirement of U.S. envoys to El Salvador to be skilled in the art of the threat. And Ap...
GREG GRANDIN

In 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, ...
GREG GRANDIN

The effect of Bill Clinton's NAFTA and Hillary Clinton's Colombian Free Trade Agreement has ...
GREG GRANDIN

At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry:...
GREG GRANDIN

Decades before President Richard Nixon bet his re-election on winning the Dixiecrat vote, Wilson wor...
GREG GRANDIN

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their '...
GREG GRANDIN

Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.'...
GREG GRANDIN

By June 1974, Treasury Secretary George Shultz was already suggesting that rising oil prices could r...
GREG GRANDIN

Since 2010, Hillary Clinton's State Department, with the aid of Brazil, France, and Canada and i...
GREG GRANDIN

Migrants don't come to the United States because, as Ambassador Aponte argued in her press confe...
GREG GRANDIN

In 2000, just before leaving the White House, Clinton ratcheted up military aid to Colombia. Plan Co...
GREG GRANDIN

The first mention of a 'ranger' is as early as 1622, during the 1622 Powhatan rebellion, a n...
GREG GRANDIN

Such is the nature of the 'unity government' Clinton helped institutionalize. In her book, &...
GREG GRANDIN

The journalist Walter Lippmann identified in Henry Ford, for all his peculiarity, a common strain of...
GREG GRANDIN

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. Thes...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking ca...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem i...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teac...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an a...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep le...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't thi...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverb...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you kno...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you'...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the au...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don'...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adu...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another ch...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could n...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I am different, not less.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in be...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatmen...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

You gotta bleed 'em in 60 seconds or less.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I thought I could fix everything with engineering.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

The head must be dead. I can't stress that enough.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what'...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. Bu...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from v...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in po...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?

You would have a ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like t...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I was fascinated with optical illusions.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Animals make us Human.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got t...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person w...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Autism is part of who I am.
TEMPLE GRANDIN

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but ...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all yo...
GREG BRENNEMAN

I live in a beautiful village in the middle of the countryside, and being able to disappear off on m...
GREG RUTHERFORD

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
GREG LAKE

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pa...
GREG BEHRENDT

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
GREG BOYLE

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a blu...
GREG GINN

I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.
GREG RUTHERFORD

Unity! Duty! And destiny!
GREG FARSHTEY

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it f...
GREG RUTHERFORD

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pav...
GREG GUTFELD

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN

Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happe...
GREG WERNER

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reductio...
GREG WALDEN

Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited...
GREG FITZSIMMONS

All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core ...
GREG RUCKA

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
GREG EGAN

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-estee...
GREG LOUGANIS

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied...
GREG MACGILLIVRAY

Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, ...
GREG BRENNEMAN

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.
GREG BRENNEMAN

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don&#...
GREG GRAFFIN

Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is thekey to unlocking your potent...
GREG WERNER

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of o...
GREG GINN

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.
GREG LOUGANIS

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
GREG LEMOND

When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ...
GREG KURSTIN

The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the st...
GREG GUTFELD

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then remov...
GREG GUTFELD

It took a couple races, but for the most part, this Pontiac GTO has been something special, ... This...
GREG ANDERSON

If the fans aren't enjoying this points race this year they're not paying attention. This is like a ...
GREG ANDERSON

Commodities currencies including the Canadian dollar are doing very well today as gold and oil price...
GREG ANDERSON

After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.
GREG ANDERSON

When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year,
GREG ANDERSON

I haven't even rode that great this year. But I've been solid. I've stuck in the 40s and 50s in the ...
GREG ANDERSON

They were selling as soon as they hit the ground.
GREG ANDERSON

Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreadi...
GREG ANDERSON

The road to your championship will not be a smooth, wide and easily traveled freeway. No, great acco...
GREG WERNER

Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, wh...
GREG WEBSTER

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those bas...
GREG BRENNEMAN

Some read biographies of famous Christians to try to short-cut themselves into a deeper walk with th...
GREG GORDON

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the For...
GREG RUCKA

You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they m...
GREG BAXTER

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
GREG BEHRENDT

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in ...
GREG BEHRENDT

Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely....
GREG BEHRENDT

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick i...
GREG BEHRENDT

I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and ...
GREG BEHRENDT

If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for yo...
GREG BEHRENDT

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie ...
GREG CAMPBELL

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN

The life of a high achiever is one of give-and-receive. We receive that which we are willing to firs...
GREG WERNER

Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN

It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that...
GREG MOORE

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too l...
GREG NORMAN

Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into t...
GREG WERNER

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you c...
GREG LEMOND

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The s...
GREG ANDERSON

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and...
GREG ANDERSON

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doin...
GREG ANDERSON

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positiv...
GREG ANDERSON

Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreadi...
GREG ANDERSON

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love ...
GREG ANDERSON

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independenc...
GREG ANDERSON

The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our grea...
GREG ANDERSON

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations i...
GREG ANDERSON

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to c...
GREG ANDERSON

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
GREG ANDERSON

When we blame, we give away our power.
GREG ANDERSON

Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it m...
GREG WERNER

The Law of Win/Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
GREG ANDERSON

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience posit...
GREG ANDERSON

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it...
GREG ANDERSON

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
GREG ANDERSON

There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ...
GREG BEHRENDT

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
GREG EVANS

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing w...
GREG MORTENSON

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up....
GREG BEHRENDT

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not...
GREG BEHRENDT

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went...
GREG KINNEAR

I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are...
GREG GRAFFIN

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