Especially among journalists, politics is not a pu... -Chrystia Freeland

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

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Canadian politician and journalist, currently serving as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada.

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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became...
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democra...
Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorship...
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values....
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea....
I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact...
When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an...
When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on W...
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship....
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the...

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Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-rom...
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies....
Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear...
It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got...
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democra...
As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going t...
Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers....
I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing....
Are Labour members inherently bigoted against women, unable to objectively assess political attributes beyond the gender prism? This accusation seems ...
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcen...