November 2008
5 posts
How to Fix a Flat →
Last September, I was in a hotel room watching CNBC early one morning. They were interviewing Bob Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was explaining why the auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It wasn’t a bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the car companies to retool for innovation. I could not help but shout back at the TV screen: “We have to...
“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the...”
– John McCain, from his 2002 book Worth Fighting For, via The Writer’s Almanac.
“The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.”
– Founding father Alexander Hamilton