Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
Ivan Krastev
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MOHAMED EL-ERIAN While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and indi... ZAC GOLDSMITH The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual. CORNEL WEST It's almost to the point that we need election observers. The limits we have now are almost the same... GARY CLARK We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in v... PARKER PALMER A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital. BOBBY SEALE Just as much as the United States mattered to cotton, cotton mattered to the United States. Cotton r... GREG GRANDIN The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's ... TED SARANDOS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl... SIMON KUZNETS We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation ... LAWRENCE SUMMERS I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's... ADAM MICHNIK During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richar... BEN SHAPIRO I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever reall... DAMON GALGUT Rural America faces tough economic challenges for a variety of reasons, including global competition... KARL STAUBER Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also f... ANNA LINDH For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's st... ROBERT GOTTLIEB The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can. J. B. PRITZKER If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the poli... PETER SENGE American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over t... NOEL GALLAGHER Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that pla... MALCOLM X Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating thr... ROBERT ZUBRIN I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are n... SISTER SOULJAH Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed... PANKAJ MISHRA The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreig... EVAN BAYH The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a cal... JON MEACHAM Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international ... ANNA LINDH I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America bec... NAOMI KLEIN Fuel prices remain a major risk but now appear to be on a slow downward trend as global economic gro... BRIAN PEARCE I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future. JOHN GLENN The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the ... TARIQ RAMADAN In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularit... AHMED ZEWAIL America's a very traumatized society. ALANIS MORISSETTE a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major physical or mental function. KANSAS Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated o... MING-NA WEN If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth, ... JOEL POPKIN If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as Am... FRAN LEBOWITZ Both nations have an idea of Manifest Destiny and a concept of the Monroe Doctrine in their ideologi... PATRICK MENDIS Historically, economic and political crises have been buying opportunities. Looking at 17 crises, ra... SUNG WON SOHN This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of... SHERROD BROWN The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w... MARTIN JACQUES Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populat... MO IBRAHIM The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological super... EARL BROWDER It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up a... DAVID LIMBAUGH The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the ... PETER NAVARRO The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long... JACKSON KATZ If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things th... LARRY PAGE The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserv... JOSE SERRANO The business climate in 2001 was marked by an extreme decline in memory prices and a very difficult ... GEOFF TATE Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks th... EARL BROWDER Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideo... ANDREI SAKHAROV If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, th... ADAM DAVIDSON If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlin... VALERIE JARRETT Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's g... BEN SHAPIRO The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and... BERNIE SANDERS Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the po... JOHN MCCAIN It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this ... GEOFF DYER Russia is using strong economic levers. 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ANDREW POPPER The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is... PAT BUCHANAN When we can export American energy to markets around the world, the president will also be able to u... SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and w... DANIEL KAHNEMAN So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concern... SIMON NEWCOMB The political power of the purse string has a place in America only when there are lots of little pu... DWIGHT W. HAYES There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world,... HILLARY CLINTON Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sor... CARRIE COON The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be... 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