“Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a poll was taken, somewhere above 80 percent of Vietnamese people have a very positive outlook towards the United States.” PeopleThinkingImportantWarCountryTakenLast TimeVery Positive Author:Michael W. Michalak
“And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of this balancing power relationship with - against China. They - the Chinese and the Vietnamese have always had a very suspicious relationship of each other.” ThinkingTechnologyChinese Author:Michael W. Michalak
“For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.” Rebellion Author:Michael W. Michalak
“If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.” PeoplePresidentBill Of Rights Author:Sara Paretsky
“I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate than anyone I can think of over the past twenty years, and she hasn't cracked under it. That's a kind of iron fortitude that maybe we need in the President of the United States. People project on to Hillary because she is a woman. They either hate her for everything they hate about women or they long for her to be everything they want in a woman. It's an impossible burden.” PeopleThinkingKindLongPastHatePresidentImpossibleBurdenAdmireFortitudeOver The Past Author:Sara Paretsky
“I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's an African American candidate - yes! And here's a woman candidate - yes! Why can't I get behind either one of them? Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.” ThinkingBelieveHeartWishSituationMy HeartRacismAfrican AmericanSexism Author:Sara Paretsky
“When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.” SufferingAttitudeSituationViolenceInjusticeVulnerabilityHopelessnessImprisonmentClosure Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.” PoliticalReligiousIslamPalestinian Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily nationalistic, secular. Now, suddenly we are seeing the election of a religious party with extreme political ideologies and with a social agenda that seems inconsistent with the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.” PeoplePoliticalReligiousPartySceneElectionIdeologyPalestinianSecularInconsistentPolitical Ideology Author:Hanan Ashrawi