Who Are We? - The New York Times - 0 views
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America’s three greatest sources of strength, they would be “a culture of entrepreneurship,” “an ethic of pluralism” and the “quality of our governing institutions.” And yet I look at the campaign so far and I hear leading candidates trashing all of them.
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What we have in America is so amazing — a pluralistic society with pluralism. Syria and Iraq are pluralistic societies without pluralism. They can only be governed by an iron fis
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Sanders seems to me like someone with a good soul, and he is right that Wall Street excesses helped tank the economy in 2008
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I’d take Sanders more seriously if he would stop bleating about breaking up the big banks and instead breathed life into what really matters for jobs: nurturing more entrepreneurs and starter-uppers
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Ted Cruz does not have a good soul. He brims with hate, and his trashing of Washington, D.C., is despicable
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As the world gets faster and more interdependent, the quality of your governing institutions will matter more than ever, and ours are still pretty good
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America didn’t become the richest country in the world by practicing socialism, or the strongest country by denigrating its governing institutions, or the most talent-filled country by stoking fear of immigrants. It got here via the motto “E Pluribus Unum” — Out of Many, One.