“… These are the new rules that I believe should provide the frame work within which we make policy today:
(1) Change may be the only constant in today’s American economy…
(2) Human capital is probably more important than physical capital now…
(3) A more constructive partnership between business and government is far more important that the dominance of either.
(4) As we try to solve problems which arise out of the internationalization of American life and the changes in our own population, cooperation is far more important than conflict. We have to share responsibilities and opportunities- we are going up or down together.
(5) Waste is going to be punished… it appears to me that we are spending billions of investment capital increasing the debt of corporations without increasing their productivity. More debt should mean increased productivity, growth, and profitability. Now it means too often, less employment, less investment for research and development, and forced restructuring to service nonproductive debt…
(6) A strong America requires a resurgent sense of community, a strong sense of mutual obligations, and a conviction that we cannot peruse or individual interests independent of the needs of our fellow citizens…”
Pg 327; Bill Clinton; My Life
“Everyone is for change in general, but against it in particular, when they themselves have to change.”
Pg 515; Bill Clinton; My Life
"'Crispin', he said after a moment of silence, 'I'll give you some advice. Your full of sadness. Those who bring remorse are shunned. Do you know why?'
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot."
By Alexander Pope
"Be wiser than other people if you can;
But do not tell them so."
By Lord Chesterfield
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
La Rochefoucauld
"Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery, medicine and happiness."
pg 234 Aldous Huxley Brave New World
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve either one."
Benjamin Franklin
On what is convenational wisdom:
"We associate truth with convenience... with what most closely accords with self-interst and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find ighly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem. [People's behaviors] are complex, and to comprehend their character is mentally tiring. Theirfor we adhere, as through to a raft, to those ideas whcih represent our understanding."
John Kenneth Galbraith
I shook my head.
'Because sorrow is the common fate of man. Who then would want more? But whit and laughter, Crispin, why no one ever has enough.'"
pg 110-11 AVI; Crispin: The Cross of Lead
