If you are falling. . . . dive.
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer.
The message that we must send to North Korea is twofold: If the North Korean regime believes that it can defend and protect itself through nuclear and missile programs, that is a misjudgment. But if North Korea gives up its nuclear program, we will help it secure and develop itself. We must consistently send these two messages.
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.