A Warning Quotes
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels—men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine."
"In one epic life, was written the courage and greatness of our country."
"He is not a war hero. I like people who weren't captured."
"The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders."
"No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable."
"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
"I think I’ve done more than any other first-term president ever."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
"A good moral character is the first essential in a man…It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
"Great deeds can be done by imperfect men. We just need to decide whether it’s worth it."
"Unscrupulous presidents have been successful at times, but it came at a cost."
"A president must be equipped to do more good than harm for the people."
"Character is a tree, and reputation its shadow."
"A man’s character is tested when he’s given power."
"Intelligence is one of those qualities that, if you insist you have it, you probably don’t."
"He condemns the vehicular homicide, but then he opined that the 'Unite the Right' rally included some 'very fine people'."
"Trump has America back on the road to bankruptcy."
"You can’t 'order' American companies where to make their products."
"I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down on payroll."
"America’s dominant role on the international stage is at risk today."
"We’ve had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies."
"The obvious corruption was in the Oval Office."
"It’s up to the Justice Department to probe potential crimes."
"The intelligence community had been working hard to strengthen information gathering and analysis."
"We learned that, given enough time and space, Donald J. Trump will seek to abuse any power he is given."
"You don’t really believe this. Do you believe this? Okay, fine. We didn’t talk about it."
"Willful ignorance is the fairest way to describe the president’s attitude toward our enemies."
"It felt like a righteous cause, and we were proud to be getting tough in a place where other presidents had prostrated themselves."
"Many administrations have been trapped in failed negotiations with North Korea."
"Trump, who months earlier had threatened North Korea with 'fire and fury,' agreed on the spot."
"Only hours earlier, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters it was far too soon to think about negotiations."
"Planning began for a summit in Singapore like it was Trump’s quinceañera."
"It was unclear to observers precisely how the United States would convince North Korea to give up its nuclear bombs."
"The Silent Abettor is a lousier form of Apologist than the cheerleading Sycophant."
"Silent Abettors should realize saying something is in their self-interest because, if they don’t, they’ll be the next ones at a microphone defending an unconscionable decision."
"Members of the informal Steady State are not guilt-free in this."
"Those who keep their heads down will live to regret it."
"The rise of Apologists inside the Trump administration should matter to voters."
"Congress is where the presidency is fiercely examined and ardently debated."
"They’ve forgotten their oath is to the US Constitution, not to a man nor to a political base."
"The public outcry over Trump’s remarks—he was quoted as saying, 'Why do we need more Haitians, take them out,' and that we needed less immigrants from 'all these shithole countries' in places like Africa in favor of places like Norway—led to a prompt denial from Trump himself."
"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves." —Thomas Jefferson
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." —Abraham Lincoln