“Well, I arrived knowing we were there because we’d been attacked. It was very different from the Iraq conflict in that sense. But, also, while I was there, it was increasingly difficult to understand what our goal was. And the thing that has made me feel a greater and greater sense of urgency about…”Tagged: Afghan War, Iraq War
“The core principle for me is not whether or not the government is your health-insurance provider. The core principle for me is that you get covered one way or the other. That’s what Medicare for All Who Want It entails.”Tagged: Donald Trump, Health Insurance, Medicare For All Who Want It
“One of the Afghans I got to know best—his job was to clean this building that I worked in some of the time. And I was attempting to learn the language of Dari. He would teach me these Afghan sayings—there’s an amazing, rich tradition of proverbs in Afghanistan. One of them that I always think of is…”Tagged: afghanistan, Afghan Proverbs, Dari, Kashmir
“There’s going to be an investigation. There’s going to be testimony. There’s going to be records. But, for all the things that might emerge then, he confessed on television to the abuse of power. So there’s this central fact that Congress has to weigh in on: whether this is or is not a high crime.…”Tagged: Impeachment, Trump, Republicans, senate, abuse of power
“Well, the day that Nixon resigned, I’m told, he had about twenty-five per cent of the country with him. So I think we can assume that there’s at least twenty-five per cent that you’re just not going to reach. That still leaves an awful lot of people.”Tagged: Impeachment, Donald Trump, Richard Nixon
“Who among the candidates for President can lead us in a world where we’re going to have to solve these big policy problems that didn’t take a break during impeachment, and somehow unify the American people? And, of course, I’m running to be that President, because we need somebody capable of turning…”Tagged: Impeachment, Trump, Election 2020, American People
“I think keeping your word matters. I’m not the kind of guy who is going to make a commitment and then the moment it’s inconvenient, politically or otherwise, just break it. Right now, we’ve got a president who breaks a promise or tells a lie every day and does [not] seem to care about codes, norms,…”Tagged: Keeping Your Word, Donald Trump
“There is obviously a powerful tradition of reform and a progressive voice that is also religious, of which the greatest modern example is the civil rights movement. But it is the case that I think a sort of estrangement between religion and the political left is maybe starting to turn the other way.…”Tagged: Religious Voters, Religion, Reform, Religion And Faith
“What I see right now is a lot of religious voters who are looking for options, because what's happening in Washington and especially in this White House is an affront to any number of religious traditions, including somewhat conservative ones.”Tagged: Religious Voters, Options, White House, dC, Conservative