Quotes by David K. Shipler - Page 1

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
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Caricatures
Fit
Office
Oval
Comfortably
Oval Office
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Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.
David K. Shipler / Author
Civilization
Diversity
Lying
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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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Cures
Democracy
Rejected
Sunlight
Bright
Cure
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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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Civil Liberties
Liberty
Military
Military Force
Social
Behaves
Boldly
Civil
Programs
Liberties
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Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
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Fifth
Lying
Officers
Permit
Scope
Self
Tricks
Use
Amendment
Courts
Lies
Shield
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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 spiritual cultures.
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Age
Delicate
Jerusalem
Junction
Robust
Sigh
Song
Spiritual
Across
Ages
Cultures
Festival
Mournful
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If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
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Airports
Borders
Customs
Officers
Protection
Staff
Tasks
Airport
Booths
Capital
Daunting
Passport
Near
Task
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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 - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
David K. Shipler / Author
Jobs
Dramatic
Eye
Foreign Affairs
Hands
Leaving
Magician
Performing
Unnoticed
Affairs
Drawn
Important Job
Flourishes
Foreign
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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 he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.
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Believe
Done
Innocent
Intuition
Locked
Locked Up
Threatened
Anyone
Confess
Confessions
False
Holds
Tortured
Verbally
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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 begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
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Domestic Policy
Enforcement
Law
Law Enforcement
Policy
Political
Political Spectrum
President
Spectrum
Begin
Affairs
Drive
Area
Center
Domestic
Foreign
Presidents
Tend
Toward
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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 a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.
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Crisis
Lawmakers
Tenure
Future Look Will
Cautionary
Presidents
Reliable
Stated
Tale
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The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.
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Holocaust
Israel
President
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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, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.
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America
Fall
Struggle
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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 his true beliefs.
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Barack
Pursue
Socialist
Term
Barack Obama
Beliefs
First Term
Liberal
Vile
Restrained
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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 was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.
David K. Shipler / Author
Barack
Behalf
Civil Liberties
Pope
September
Smarter
Barack Obama
Bush
Charge
Civil
Eisenhower
Eroded
George
George W
George W. Bush
Led
Liberties
Likely
Portrayed
Seemed
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