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...want confidence? "Saddam Hussein is sitting on a failed regime that is not going to be around in a few years time." Moderation? China and Russia aren't rivals - they're "nations that are seeking their way" to capitalist democracy. North Korea or Iraq are merely "nations poorly led." (Where was this guy when they renamed "rogue states"?) He even tossed in an eerie parallel to the current domestic America, about the Cold War ending "the old world map of a red side and a blue side. The new map is a mosaic...
...Doerr was a Gore man, but he was taking down W.'s lengthy riff on education because he was impressed with it and realized that this guy could be a competitor for the hearts and dollars of Silicon Valley. By the time the candidate hit his stride, the venture capitalist's tiny handwriting had piled up into something looking like a ransom note. Bush could see what was happening, so when a question came about the Texas Governor's national ambitions, he fired his response not to the questioner in the crowd but directly at Doerr. "I hope...
...point is that this is a capitalist society and either you're going to be the owner or the employee. Either you're going to be the renter or the landlord. For me speaking to black America, and not being racist, we need to have our own businesses. Because this is how the Jews, the Italians, the Irish and all them founded themselves in America - by having their own businesses for their own communities: Made in the community, stays in the community. We come from a poor neighborhood and for us it was important to return to show the young...
...particular, Soros blamed the IMF for the Russian financial crisis of 1999, for holding the nascent capitalist government there to expectations it could not have...
...tide against school vouchers appears to be building: On Election Day, voters in California and Michigan overwhelmingly defeated voucher propositions by a margin of 2-to-1, despite a $30 million pro-voucher campaign spearheaded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper. In Washington, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Colorado and Arizona, voters approved significant spending increases for public schools, another signal that the public isn?t convinced of vouchers? potency...