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 Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
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.… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W.… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
