“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”

— William Pfaff

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28.

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American journalist 1928–2015

Yōko Ogawa book The Housekeeper and the Professor

Source: The Housekeeper and the Professor

“But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem.”

Andrew Wiles (1953) British mathematician

Nova Interview

“If the question be raised, why such an apparently special problem as the quadrature of the circle, is deserving of the sustained interest which has attained to it, and which it still possesses, the answer is only to be found in a scrutiny of the history of the problem, and especially in the closeness of the connection of that history with the general history of Mathematical Science.”

E. W. Hobson (1856–1933) British mathematician

Source: Squaring the Circle (1913), p. 2

“Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.”

Vilfredo Pareto book Manual of Political Economy

page 92.
Manual of Political Economy

“My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.”

Jerry Springer (1944) American television presenter, former lawyer, politician, news presenter, actor, and musician

from a speech given circa 1970 to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio.
This American Life http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/04/258.html, Ep. 258, 01/30/04, Leaving the Fold; Act One.

“The answer to the problem of the American car is not under its hood. …The best car-related innovation we have is not to improve the car but to eliminate the need to drive it everywhere we go.”

Alex Steffen (1968) American writer and futurist

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080211_959496.htm

“Dig down to solid bottom, if it can be found”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V "The City Walls" Sec. 1
Context: After insuring on these principles the healthfulness of the future city... the next thing to do is to lay the foundations for the towers and walls. Dig down to solid bottom, if it can be found, and lay them therein, going as deep as the magnitude of the proposed work seems to require. They should be much thicker than the part of the walls that will appear above ground and their structure should be as solid as it can possibly be laid.

“It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard, that's our history! We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (1988)

“The main problem in the world is that power, and wealth is in the hands of a few elite.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Twitter 22 Aug 2018
2018

“No physicist could tolerate religious dogma or extremism, but I have found that Christianity provides answers to the deeper questions about life and purpose which are beyond the range of science to answer.”

Antony Hewish (1924–2021) English physicist and radio astronomer

Antony Hewish Interview https://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari171012.htm (17 October, 2012)

“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”

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