Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes
Let's start with a basic question: Do we, as a country, want our most highly qualified employees from the private sector to pursue public service? The answer, I would imagine, should be yes.
Sorkin, Andrew Ross. "A Defense of Wall Street's Revolving Door." The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 2013.
This proverb describes a philosophy which is very different from traditional American values. Ironically, in Chinese History, both the right wing and left wing governments have espoused the philosophy implicit in this proverb. Both the Nationalist and Communist factions of the Chinese Civil War both demanded these values.
This is a very interesting quotation in that right wing parties are usually opposed to any kind of Government ownership and control of business and industry. However, Fascist parties have usually wanted to commandeer business and industry for the central purposes of the dictatorial state. The French National Front Party had its roots in the WWII French Vichy Government—which was allied with the Nazis to bring Fascism and racism to France.
He was referring to the fact that Google was performing a wonderful public service of indexing and making searchable and readable all the books in the Harvard and other major libraries.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published by The New York Times. He wrote the bestselling book Too Big to Fail and co-produced a movie adaptation of the book for HBO Films. He is also the co-creator for the Showtime series Billions.
