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> [“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/the-law-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-lawyers-to-paraphrase/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

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## More by David K. Shipler

> [Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/obama-behaves-like-a-centrist-who-leans-tentatively-left-on-certain/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/the-law-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-lawyers-to-paraphrase/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/jerusalem-is-a-festival-and-a-lamentation-its-song-is-a-sigh-across/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/workers-on-the-edge-of-poverty-are-essential-to-america-s-prosperity/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/obama-prefers-to-look-forward-not-back-as-he-has-stated-so-at-least/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/caricatures-created-by-politics-never-fit-comfortably-into-the-oval/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/eisenhower-was-less-deferential-to-the-military-than-he-seemed-likely/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/here-among-the-constant-ruins-and-rebuilding-of-civilizations-lies/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/obama-has-already-rejected-the-bright-sunlight-of-public-knowledge/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [“The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/the-day-i-arrived-in-yakutsk-with-my-colleague-peter-osnos-of-the/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/watching-foreign-affairs-is-sometimes-like-watching-a-magician-the/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/affairs-of-state-tend-to-drive-most-presidents-toward-the-center-on/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/there-s-something-about-barack-obama-that-induces-americans-to/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/the-holocaust-never-quite-leaves-israeli-jews-alone-arabs-use-it/)

[David K. Shipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-k-shipler/)

> [If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-k-shipler/if-you-have-never-been-tortured-or-locked-up-and-verbally-threatened/)

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