To balance China, the democracies will need new friends -- and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. |
We have every reason to fear that the president's support among conservatives will decline. I don't think it will drop radically, but I think all the indicators are ... that conservatives are really unhappy about this. And if his numbers among conservatives go down, his overall ratings will drop. He's already at a dangerously low level. |
What the generation, the Americans who came of age in the 30s and 40s believe they lived, felt, I mean had reason to feel they lived in a world that was very much beyond their control and in which terrible things were capable of happening to you beyond your control. The depression being the obvious example. |
[In his 1994 book] Dead Right, ... Frustrated on economic issues and apprehensive about social issues, post-Bush conservatives look back on the accomplishments of the early Reagan years the way seventh century Romans must have looked at their aqueducts: to think that we once built all this! |