Naomi Klein Quotes

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of my lifetime. Period.

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.

The globalization of the economy has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else in the history of the world.

Many will see [globalization] as little more than a mask used by certain economic elites for taking away the voice of the individual citizen.

One thing you can say in favor of the globalization system is that it doesn’t discriminate—it leaves both the weak and the powerful feeling a loss of control and under the thumb of elected and at times uncontrollable forces.

Politicians haven't the capacity to lead whole societies anywhere. They are outclassed and outrun by trends in the world economy that are beyond the ability of the political class to control or direct.

America is the first world country.

Nothing Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton did together will ever have as much impact on election results as the partisan makeup of congressional districts around the country.

Many on the right confuse the "is" of globalization with the "ought" of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.