“The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.” ThinkingNeedsStatesCultureUnitedUnited StatesDangerousModelsTasksSufficientMixturesDiagnosisPostureAnalogiesFacilitate Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.” MayCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesModelsImpactElsewhereOther Countries Author:Joel Klein
“The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.” NeedsStatesUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingModelsThreatSecureVulnerabilityRelyTrustedRobust Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.” WorldStatesPoliticalInterestingUnitedUnited StatesEconomicElementsModelsContemporarySelectReally InterestingPrototypeEconomic Models Author:Bruno Dumont