Cornell Expert Quotes
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“The need for assistance [in Puerto Rico] is now so dire it is impossible to ignore – to do so would precipitate a humanitarian disaster even greater than the one already in progress.”
Steven C. Kyle
associate professor, macroeconomics policy expert
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“Science is the great giver. Without it we would have no cure for polio, no microchips, no cellular phones, no artificial hearts, no rockets to outer space. In its greatest and most intended moment, science is agnostic. It is driven by methods, not by partisan politics.”
Media:
Joe Schwartz
bjs54@cornell.edu
607-882-3774
Related Tip Sheet:
Cornell faculty experts join March for Science April 22 (04/06/17)
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“We may be witnessing a third historical opportunity for Kurdish independence with President Trump’s decision to arm the YPG."
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
Kurdish independence is substance of Trump-Erdogan meet (05/16/17)
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“I expect Angela Merkel’s visit to Trump to be very different from Macron’s visit this week. The distinct protocolar frameworks in which these two back-to back visits with Europe’s most important leaders take place are very telling. They point to the much more difficult relationship Trump has with Merkel compared to his relationship with the French president."
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
Merkel to navigate difficult road in DC — without the pomp (04/26/18)
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“Without a Castro formally at the head of the Cuban government, a younger leader without the legitimacy of the revolution will have to navigate the island’s many domestic and international challenges, from resolving Cuba’s problematic dual currency system to weathering President Trump’s return to a Cold War antagonism in U.S.-Cuba relations.”
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
No more Castro: Cuba’s change of guards starts a day early (04/16/18)
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“International production networks rather than the boundaries of nations now define industrial competitiveness. Therefore, it is difficult to tell who gains and who loses from globalization in the United States.
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
NAFTA struggles to regulate increasingly global supply chain (10/09/17)
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"Tillerson’s ouster is a sign of continued turbulence in U.S. foreign policy. A potential silver lining is that the State Department will fare better under someone who has Trump’s ear."
Media:
Media Relations, Media Relations Office
mediarelations@cornell.edu
(607) 255 - 2059
Related Tip Sheet:
Tillerson ouster may mean more of the same for China, Asia (03/13/18)
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As a founding member of the European Community, Italy has always been in Europe, but not completely of Europe. (...) The Euro crisis and attendant austerity followed by the refugee crisis have produced convergences across Europe where none had existed in the past. With the dissolution of the left and the emergence of an intense nationalism, Italy is becoming European, and not in a good way.
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
Italy is finally European, but not in a good way (02/27/18)
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"One thing that is notable, and somewhat new, is that the government is framing this as a public safety concern. Certainly migrant worker housing is in general substandard and rife with health and safety concerns. However, upgrading the quality of housing by no means necessitates the evictions and dispossession that have marked this campaign."
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
Beijing mass evictions reveal regime’s moral vacuum (11/28/17)
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“Unless Congress acts, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients stand to lose their deportation relief and work authorization on March 5, 2018, the date that DACA is set to expire."
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
Dreamers communities stand to lose in DACA bargain (11/30/17)
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Trump’s big talk about America First shouldn't be construed as signaling dramatic increases in the defense budget, an abandoning of allies, or the real threat of nuclear engagement.
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
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