Life, As The Signs In The Liquor

A Novel Makes It Possible To Understand Not Just Events, But The People Who Control The Events; Not Only Their Choices, But Also Their Motives.

I Want People To Understand That, Look, We're In A Period Of Democratic Deficit, Democratic Recession. There Are Fewer Democracies In The World Today Than In 2005, And In Many Of The Countries That Are Still Technically Democracies, We're Seeing A Reduction In The Rule Of Law. And That's Especially True In Central Europe, But It's Also True Of Places Like South Africa, The Philippines.

My Mother Cared More About How You Reasoned Than About The Conclusions You Reached.

The System We Have Is One That Protects My Rights Under A President I Don`t Approve. That Tomorrow We`ll Do The Same For You. And What People Have In Common Is Their Commitment To Those Shared Rules. And If You Have Someone Who Was A Challenger To The Shared Rules, That`s Unacceptable. And We`ve Never Seen That Before. Not In A Long, Long Time But We See It Now.

No One Is Murdered In Hungary And There Are No Illegal Arrests, But People Have Begun Again, When They Talk To You In A Public Place Looking Around To See Who's Listening. You See That In Slovakia, You're Beginning To See That In Poland.