I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
George PackerYou don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
George PackerThere's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.
George PackerThe biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.
George Packer