Author: James Fallows

Quotes

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

- James Fallows

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

- James Fallows

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

- James Fallows

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

- James Fallows

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

- James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

- James Fallows

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

- James Fallows

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