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A Firing Offense QUOTES

1 " We are the sum of our choices and decisions, chances and accidents. Our personal history is built up in layers that contain our history as surely as sediments of rock contain the history of our planet. "

― David Ignatius , A Firing Offense

2 " Real power around the world does not reside with governments any longer, but with private interests. Real power is secret power. "

― David Ignatius , A Firing Offense

3 " In the decade I had been away something in the fabric of the country had dissolved. America wasn’t one country anymore—it was two, or a dozen, or a thousand. The extremes of wealth and color and caste felt more like Cairo or Johannesburg than any American city I remembered. "

― David Ignatius , A Firing Offense

4 " Keep looking. I’d love to be able to start over again fresh. I’d love to look in that other person’s face and see nothing but a clear reflection. Maybe this time I’d be more careful not to damage it. "

― David Ignatius , A Firing Offense