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I Often Have Said To People That There Are Really Two Cities In The Country Where The Outlook Is Always Forward-looking - There Is Never Really A Backward-looking Tendency. My Banking Work Has Taken Me Out To Palo Alto, What Is Commonly Called Silicon Valley. And You Sense Out There Is Always A Forward-looking Outlook. And New York City.

-Harold Ford, Jr.

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Harold Ford, Jr.

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I Often Have Said To People That There Are Really Two Cities In The Country Where The Outlook Is Always Forward-looking - There Is Never Really A Backward-looking Tendency. My Banking Work Has Taken Me Out To Palo Alto, What Is Commonly Called Silicon Valley. And You Sense Out There Is Always A Forward-looking Outlook. And New York City.

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