David K. Shipler Quotes
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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of…
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Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand -…
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Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
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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. Instead,…
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Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
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Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush…
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Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they…
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Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
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Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as…
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If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something…
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