George Packer Quotes
When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.
Packer, George. "'Unwinding' The De-Industrialization Of America." Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, 17 June 2013.
Jefferson used the name because in Latin in meant “city on a hill” which had great meaning for the original colonial settlers. Remember that in the original plan for Washington DC, the Capitol was the center of the city in the sense that it is where the 4 quadrants in which the city was divided, meet.
In a zero sum system whenever one party gains, the other must lose, and if one loses, the other has a corresponding gain. At other times, legislation was not a zero sum game. Many Congressmen believed that if good legislation would be passed, BOTH parties would benefit as would the country. If poor or no legislation were passed, that would be bad for all.
George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is best known for his writings for The New Yorker and The Atlantic about U.S. foreign policy and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. Packer also wrote The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, covering the history of America from 1978 to 2012. In November 2013, The Unwinding received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His latest book Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century was released in May 2019.
