Dana Milbank famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.
-- Dana Milbank

#Sacrifice #Talking #Iraq
It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.
-- Dana Milbank

#Privacy #Persons
By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.
-- Dana Milbank

#Gun #Law #Doubt
Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
-- Dana Milbank

#Kids #Parent #Safe
After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.
-- Dana Milbank

#Government #Tape #Mask
I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.
-- Dana Milbank

#Daughter #Smart #Ocean
Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.
-- Dana Milbank

#Children #Worry #Panic

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.
Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Dana Milbank famous quotes

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