Jon Meacham
Related HA-JOON CHANG If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The g... TIM SCOTT JON MEACHAM The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. ERIC ANDERSON The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. ERIC C. ANDERSON Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for ad... THOMAS WOODS Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector h... JOHN REDWOOD Leadership at the civic level is designed to be inclusive, but has difficulty being effective. In th... MED YONES HENRY HAZLITT HENRY HAZLITT LARRY KRAMER CORY BOOKER DAVID LLOYD GEORGE TREVOR NOAH There is no question that the politics of Latin America have shifted to the left in many countries t... DAN ERIKSON HENRY HAZLITT This has not been a distraction to him. He looks at challenges that are facing this country in the g... ERIC RUFF Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bod... EDGAR D. MITCHELL PATTY JENKINS Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In oth... CAL THOMAS We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and... DAVID GROSS We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and... DAVID GROSS ADAM SCHIFF I look at the financial condition of America today, and debt has never been higher than it is today ... GREG PETSCH JEFFREY FRY The defense budget continues to grow but at this point, most of the growth is completely dependent o... JOE CAMPBELL Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity i... WILLIAM KIRBY In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has ce... ELLIOT ACKERMAN When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det... WALTER ULBRICHT It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too,... L. NEIL SMITH In American history, this is the most outrageous giveaway ever extended by the federal government to... BARMAK NASSIRIAN Government policies and regulations in the postcrisis era have aided the hollowing-out of middle Ame... MICHAEL BURRY JOHN ARMSTRONG History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a pri... VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Philosophically, engaging the private sector has been seen as a bad thing. DAVID WHEELER HILARY MANTEL Meacham could have won it with 1.7 seconds left on the clock. That would have been something. CURTIS HAGGINS At this point we have an idea that water is probably abundant on Mars in the form of ice. It's not a... ALFRED MCEWEN P.C. CAST France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can suc... FRANCOIS MITTERRAND STEPHEN KING LOIS LOWRY Basically, this is something the management of a private-sector financial institution has made and i... HEIZO TAKENAKA What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... MIKE BEEBE There have been problems. ... I think most of them have been dealt with at this point, ANDREW NATSIOS At this point, a decision has not been made. We're still watching their recovery efforts, ... if -- ... MICHAEL SHEEHAN RONALD REAGAN When you look at the totality of what Uzbekistan has been doing, they've been a very valuable partne... BRYAN WHITMAN Business is at the heart of America and always has been. DAVID A. SIEGEL They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not... GREG AMODIO [Williams] had a great fourth quarter. He made second-team All-County and All-TCL [but] there is no ... JAY AIRHART AL MICHAELS We do believe there has been some injury at this point to the brain. The fact that he is not waking ... DR. JOHN PRESCOTT HENRY DAVID THOREAU You're spending taxpayer dollars, so a reasonable degree of transparency is required. But if someone... BRIAN MERSEREAU ANN COULTER (Also), the fact that businessmen carried on not just working under Japanese occupation, but produci... BERNARD WASSERSTEIN NYRA is a paradigm of bad government. There are still major problems at the tracks, but this report ... DARREN DOPP GEORGE ELIOT This budget has deceived the common man. The tax system is regressive. Heavy concessions have been g... GURUDAS DASGUPTA In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal... CYRUS VANCE I was at the point of near insubordination over the fact that this was something important, that thi... ANTHONY SHAFFER I was at the point of near insubordination, ... over the fact that this was something important, tha... ANTHONY SHAFFER The market is just waiting for the outcome of the meeting at this point, but the trend is to assume ... ISABEL LEMOS EDMUND MORGAN This is a very inclusive process. No city has been counted out at this point. AARON MCLEAR BRYANT MCGILL has not been demonstrated to pose a threat worthy of war at this time. SCOTT RITTER No decision has been made yet. At this point, the group is more or less in a dormant stage. DAN HOPKINS At this point, it appears to be a random act, and while nothing has been ruled out, it does not appe... CRYSTAL CANDY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY CHARLES A. BEARD If there is a peace agreement, then we will have to consult with the Congress, and the president wil... SAMUEL BERGER The NBA has always been on our wish list. In soccer, we have FIFA and UEFA. In baseball, we have the... ERICH STAMMINGER We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic... BILL RICHARDSON [For his part, retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who has been speaking out as a Bush surrogate, has an op-e... TOMMY FRANKS There has not been such a significant challenge to the federal government since the Nigerian civil w... DIMIEARI VON KEMEDI EUGENE IONESCO ANDREW YOUNG PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for, ... I don't know if this man is really takin... JAMES BOND There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the coun... FRANK B. KELLOGG The media sector has been a bit weak, but there is not one particular influence for why it has been ... PAUL BATES Most conservatives have been historically strong defense people, but have been reluctant to embrace ... DAVID KEENE At this point it has been resolved. KYLE DOSTALER ROLLO MAY If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Eart... BILL VIOLA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES GEORGE HARRISON Results would have been obtained if (the proposal) had been put forward and discussed. But this is h... ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE SHEIKH MOHAMMAD I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respec... MARY JO WHITE NATO is the most important military alliance in world history. MITCH MCCONNELL First of all, any speculation at this point about the 2006 budget really has no basis in fact, becau... SCOTT MCCLELLAN RICHARD THOMPSON BILL BRYSON At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place. ESTELLE PARSONS The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, ... COFER BLACK But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a... JULIAN HUXLEY SUZANNE COLLINS BEN QUAYLE
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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and... 
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