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The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
— George Packer
Tags: street, government, tea, politics

Other Quotes by "George Packer"

If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
— George Packer
Tags: top, process, competition, sports
Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.
— George Packer
Tags: red, together, blue, life
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.
— George Packer
Tags: reach, only, america, poor
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.
— George Packer
Tags: youth, world, poetry, war
Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
— George Packer
Tags: wrong, control, doing, matter
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