In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult. Chrystia Freeland More Quotes by Chrystia Freeland More Quotes From Chrystia Freeland It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence. Chrystia Freeland playingbestgoodstrong I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class. Chrystia Freeland understandthinkwealthpeople Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico. Chrystia Freeland owninequalityfinancialindia Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state. Chrystia Freeland worldwideadvantagesunderstood The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. Chrystia Freeland pointresultsdemocracypositive In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy. Chrystia Freeland beingcapitalismfearpeople Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim. Chrystia Freeland saythinkdangerousculture This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that. Chrystia Freeland seeglobalizationpovertypeople A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship. Chrystia Freeland stopmeyousociety Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else. Chrystia Freeland musicpowerrelationshipwar Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable. Chrystia Freeland inequalityincomedifferentpermanent The age of economic relations as the primary arena for interactions between states is already upon us. Chrystia Freeland betweenuseconomicage There are no bad seats at the cabinet table. Chrystia Freeland cabinettablebadseats In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do. Chrystia Freeland passportneedeconomyworkers 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 globalizationtechnologynaturework We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism. Chrystia Freeland smalllivingideologyworld It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us. Chrystia Freeland thinkintelligencesaidknowledge In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue. Chrystia Freeland personalbusinesssuccessamerica People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good. Chrystia Freeland goodrichwantpeople This notion that borders wouldn't matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats. Chrystia Freeland wellwhomatterworld
