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Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our

Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.

Mark Hertsgaard
Responsibility, Government, Names
Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

Mark Hertsgaard
Children, Impact, June
"Meet Generation Hot" by Mark Hertsgaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.

Mark Hertsgaard
Travel, Havens, Knows
Mark Hertsgaard (2009). “Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future”, p.16, Broadway Books

During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'

Mark Hertsgaard
Sleep, Italian, Europe
"On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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