William Pfaff Quotes
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.
William Pfaff, Author & Columnist, Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends, 1989
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Zhou, more than any other Chinese official, was responsible for the dramatic change in the Chinese economic shift from a classical socialist model to a modern market driven competitive economy.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
There had been a major labor strike in the textile mills of Lawrence. Ettor was one of the major strike leaders and strategists. The city authorities sided totally with the mill owners and used police and militia to try and break the strike. When one of the strikers was shot and killed (historians generally agree that the police had fired the shot), the authorities used the death to incapacitate the leadership of Ettor and two other “socialist” leaders who were professional strike organizers and leaders. The 3 were arrested and charged with murder, firing the shot that killed the striker. Ettor and the others were miles away at the time giving speeches to the strikers at another mill. None-the-less, they were arrested, jailed, and not even tried until after the strike was ended. The three were quickly acquitted. The jailing of the strike leaders backfired and made the strikers even more resolute. The laborers finally won the concessions, not to have their pay cut. The defendants went on to lead other strikes.
Referring to the 98% reelection rate of congressional incumbents:
1st Duke of Wellington
William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
