"Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents……" — 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 they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement."
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10 Quotes by David K. Shipler
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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm…
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Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes,…
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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…
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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…
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Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and…
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Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be…
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If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that…
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More Affairs Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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