Top 26 Quotes by James Fallows

About James Fallows

These are some quotes by American author James Fallows Journalist, who was born on August 2, 1949.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

James Fallows

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

James Fallows

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

James Fallows

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

James Fallows

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

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

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

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

James Fallows

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

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