There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.
[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.
The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.
The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
