Evan Osnos Quotes

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

Evan Osnos

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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

Marat Safin
- Kind
- Happen
- Lottery
A good leader must be fair.

Yao Ming
- Good
- Leader
- Fair
Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

Kate Mara
- Hair
- Head
- Wig
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Rahm Emanuel
- Change
- Wall
- President
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Abraham Verghese
- Long
- America
- Faith
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

Nancy Gibbs
- Good
- Start
- Battles