Noah Feldman Quotes

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• Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves…
• Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?
• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need…
• Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and preserve his historical…
• When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the…
• In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
• The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple…
• The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed…
• The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers…
• The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend presidential…
• In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that…
• Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways…
• Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence…
• The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
• The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining…
• Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court…
• During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box…
• It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
• For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a…
• Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

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