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“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.” PoliticalPatrioticSkepticismCivicsAmerican Book:The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties Source: The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
“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.” SelfUseLyingTaughtCourtTricksPermitOfficersAmendmentsFifthScopeShieldsFifth Amendment Author:David K. Shipler
“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.” IfsBelieveMayHardDoneIntuitionInnocentLockedConfessionThreatenedLocked UpHard To Believe Author: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.” MatterStatesLawPoliticalPresidentPolicyAreasAffairLaw EnforcementEnforcementSpectrumPolitical SpectrumDomestic Policy Author:David K. Shipler
“Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.” CertainLeftForceSocialLibertyMilitaryProgramBehaveCivil LibertiesMilitary ForceSocial Programs Author:David K. Shipler
“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.” IfsSeemsNationsTasksProtectionBordersCustomsOfficersStaffAirportsPassports Author:David K. Shipler
“Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.” FitOfficeCaricaturesOval Author:David K. Shipler
“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.” LyingCivilizationDiversityConstantRuinsIntoleranceRebuildingCoexistence Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
“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.” StatesUseSeemsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesJewIsraelMinistersPrimeHolocaustPrime MinisterNever QuitIsraeli Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
“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.” AgeSpiritualSongCultureDelicateSighFestivalsJerusalemRobustPsalmsLamentationJunction Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
“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.” ImportantSometimesHandsEyeJobsLeavingAffairPerformingDramaticMagicianUnnoticedImportant JobsForeign Affairs Author:David K. Shipler
“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.” DemocracyCuresSunlightRejected Author:David K. Shipler
“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.” WellsWholeAmericaFallPovertyStruggleEssentialsWorkersForgottenEdgesProsperityTreatedWell BeingAshamedCliffsDaily Struggle Book:The Working Poor: Invisible in America Source: The Working Poor: Invisible in America