Quotes by Theodore C. Sorensen - Page 1

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Wisdom
Wise
Decision
Made
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Presidential candidates don't chew gum.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Candidates
Gum
Presidential
Presidential Candidate
Chew
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We remain essentially a nation under siege.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Siege
Essentially
Remain
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We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
War
Contingency Plans
Plans
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The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Absent
Ambassador
His
Presence
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I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Class
Father
Middle Class
Nebraska
Class Family
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Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Civilians
Including
Innocent
Military
Sides
Innocent Civilians
Military Strength
Reigned
Reserve
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I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Advantages
Mr
Diplomat
Minister
Sending
Skilled
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Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
War
Bombs
Communicate
Destruction
Enemy
Mass
Mass Destruction
Smart
Weapons
Number
Negotiate
Waging
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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Country
Eye
Greatness
Self Deception
Gag
Loosen
Restore
Tear
Voices
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With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Peace
Dedicated
Party
World
Intend
Mount
Preach
Stairway
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Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Foreign Countries
Above
Actual
Pose
Unilateral
Wage
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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Nations
Terrorist
Weapons
Attack
Earned
Merely
Safer
Terrorist Attack
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We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Conventional
Danger
Genuine
National Security
Needs
Renounce
Survival
Use
Poses
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We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
War
Caution
Cold
Cold War
Long
Principles
Prudent
Soviet
Soviet Union
Weaponry
Apply
Collective
Peacefully
Prevail
Union
Superior
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I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Running
Democratic
Democratic Party
Franklin
Liberalism
Mistake
Ought
Party
Running Away
Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry
John
Reach
Robert
Roosevelt
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Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Peace
Believe
Champion
Greatness
Heights
Temple
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The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Damage
Greater
Heart And Soul
Lasting
Misconduct
Months
Terrorist
Heart Soul Country
Inflict
Longer
Possibly
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Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Attention
Destruction
Global Warming
Gore
Pay Attention
Real
Scientist
Species
Whistling
Wind
Al
Al Gore
Warming
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Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Humility
Innovation
Needs
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We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Faith
Government
Deny
Freedom Of Religion
Islamic
Members
Billion
Governments
Invade
Prejudiced
Suppress
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Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Assault
Gates
Goodness
Material Wealth
Protection
Wealth
Abroad
Asset
Guns
Essential
Guards
Material
Oceans
Richest
Surest
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The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Good
Changed
Democracy
Foolish
Gloom
Good News
Mistake
News
People
Political
Political Leaders
Replaced
Self
Sovereign
Democracy Political People
Good Political People
Mistakes
Here
Disastrous
Inept
Inherently
Leaders
Policies
Relieve
Reversed
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We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Leadership
Adversaries
Bargaining
Iran
Juvenile
Korea
North Korea
Silent
Treatment
Manner
Strengthened
Weakened
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Respect
American Values
Earning
Empathy
Foreign Policy
Might
Military
Policy
Restraint
Safety
Traditional
American
Short
Enhance
Rest
Foreign
Learn
Lecture
Shall
Showing
Threaten
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I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
Advice
Brain
Doubt
Foreign Affairs
Informing
Marvelous
Premature
Reaching
Affairs
Fully
Shape
Slightest
Slightest Doubt
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I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
America
Believe
Bottom
Lines
National Security
Owners
Productivity
Sacrifice
Workers
Believe I Believe America
Front Lines
Offices
Required
Sacrifices
Shared
Volunteers
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