"Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this."
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"A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter."
"If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened."
"What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined."
"It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression."
"I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction."
"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic."
"There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue."
"I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money."