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The Bush agenda is nationalistic: it emphasizes the use of force and ignores global problems whose solution requires international cooperation. (George Soros)
First, there is no single sustainable model for national success. Second, the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it. View quote
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War and occupation create innocent victims. View quote
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We face a vicious circle of escalating violence. View quote
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Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. View quote
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We are the dominant power. And that imposes on us a responsibility to be actually concerned with the well being of the world. View quote
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An open society is always in danger. It must constantly reaffirm its principles in order to survive. View quote
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How good are markets in predicting real-world developments? Reading the record, it is striking how many calamities that I anticipated did not in fact materialise. Financial markets constantly anticipate events, both on the positive and on the negative side, which fail to materialise exactly because they have been anticipated. It is an old joke that the stock market has predicted seven of the last two recessions. Markets are often wrong. View quote
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As long as people genuinely care for the people they're trying to help, they can actually do a lot of good. View quote
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The fact that a thesis is flawed does not mean that we should not invest in it as long as other people believe in it and there is a large group of people left to be convinced. The point was made by John Maynard Keynes when he compared the stock market to a beauty contest where the winner is not the most beautiful contestant but the one whom the greatest number of people consider beautiful. Where I have something significant to add is in pointing out that it pays to look for the flaws; if we find them, we are ahead of the game because we can limit our losses when the market also discovers what we already know. It is when we are unaware of what could go wrong that we have to worry. View quote
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. This is a harsh - indeed, for me, painful - thing to say, but unfortunately I am convinced it is true. (George Soros)
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposition position. I assume that markets are always wrong. Even if my assumption is occasionally wrong, I use it as a working hypothesis. View quote
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The war in Iraq was misconceived from start to finish - if it has a finish. View quote
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It's more difficult, you know, to bring about positive change than it is to make money. View quote
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The Palestine problem does not have a purely military solution. Military superiority is necessary for Israel's national security, but it is not sufficient. View quote
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We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. View quote
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Now, there is a good foundation for this. But it's a half-truth. View quote
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A global society does not mean a global state. View quote
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There is no other country that can take the place of the United States in the foreseeable future. If the United States fails to provide the right kind of leadership our civilization may destroy itself. That is the unpleasant reality that confronts us. View quote
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Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions. View quote
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Most of the time we are punished if we go against the trend. Only at an inflection point are we rewarded. (George Soros)
We have a booming global economy but we don't have a global society. Markets reduce everything, including human beings and nature, to commodities. Societies need more than this to prosper - such goals as political freedom and social justice. View quote
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The invasion of Afghanistan was justified: that was where bin Laden lived and al Qaeda had its training camps. The invasion of Iraq was not similarly justified. It was President Bush's unintended gift to bin Laden. View quote
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Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets. View quote
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Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems. View quote
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