“Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast a...” — Chrystia Freeland Quote

“Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they're losing out to the Islamists, who've built protest movements the old-fashioned way. And in Moscow, the Mink revolutionaries, who are united by Live-Journal but not much else, were easy for Putin to outmaneuver.”

“Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.”

“Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.”

“If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.”

“The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.”

“Africa needs access to markets.”