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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
- Chrystia Freeland
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#Cut
#Democracy
#Teeth
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One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Government
#Growing
#Jobs
#Model
#Russia
A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
- Chrystia Freeland
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#Capitalism
#Good
#Group
#New
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Cannot
#Criticism
#First
#Silence
#World
Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Crisis
#Long
#Sometimes
#Storm
#Time
This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Globalization
#People
#Poverty
#See
#Up
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 independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Experience
#Foundation
#Lawyer
#Legal
I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Always
#Hanging
#Out
#People
#Talking
My respect for politicians has increased. It's hard work - even hard physical work.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Hard Work
#Politicians
#Respect
#Work
Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Competition
#Cozy
#Innovation
#Many
#Pay
Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Hard
#Important
#Rich
#Russia
#Sometimes
We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Agreement
#Need
#Negotiation
#Recognize
Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Battle
#Government
#How
#Important
#Will
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Believe
#Democracy
#People
#Politicians
We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than atheists.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Canada
#Going
#Say
#Than
#Worse
I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Believe
#Best
#Hoping
#Really
#Worst
Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Employment
#Judging
#Metric
#Mistake
Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.
- Chrystia Freeland
#1970s
#Beginning
#Late
#Political
#Value
I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Globalization
#Impact
#Technology
#World
All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?
- Chrystia Freeland
#Government
#Possible
#Purpose
#Us
#Work
The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Deliver
#Democracy
#Majority
#Point
#Positive
Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even the economic cycle itself are being transformed.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Globalization
#Nature
#Technology
#Work
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Equality
#Opportunity
#See
#Values
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
- Chrystia Freeland
#Equality
#Growth
#More
#Necessary
#Poor
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