A conversation with author Clare Lockhart - Charlie Rose

Caught this on Charlie Rose (who I think is pretty much a dork but Ms Lockhart impressed me and I am gonig to follow her around like a groupie for awhile.

Seriously---intersting stuff.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

It's not bad, actually. Thought it'd be some sort of super-hawk a la Kirkpatrick, but she says some good stuff, good solutions. I like that she advocates national development against just patchwork contractors and US firms to make money off the rebuilding. process. Encourages regional cooperation, Marshall-style development package... She's good, I'll see if I can find out more on the book.

Thanks.

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"I will continue to be an impossible man as long as those men who are possible today remain possible." - Bakunin, letter to Ogarev.

"The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods, but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality." - John Dewey.

My pleasure--I haven't heard anyone speak to eloquently in awhile and the fact she wasn't pushing crap on me was refreshing. Not sure I agree with it all but she has style.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw