Jeffrey Goldberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Mean #Healthy #France
Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Law #Circles #Mentor
Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#World #Being The Best #Mechanic
I would say that to vote for Trump was to at least overlook the fact that we're talking about someone with a record of misogyny and racist invective. And so that is what is troubling to a lot of people and that's what makes this election, among other things, makes this election very different than others is that those good, decent people over - at least overlooked a very, very sorry record of prejudice.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Sorry #People #Different
I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Brother #Thinking #Stronger
Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Bombs #Reason #Worst
I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Golf #Golf Course
The Arab leadership, after so many years of Obama, they're positively giddy about the arrival of Donald Trump. And when they are giddy, like any other leaders, they might over step. And the danger, of course, is initiating a confrontation with Iran that the U.S. really doesn't want to be involved with at any given moment. They have enough to worry about on the North Korea file.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Worry #Leader #Moments
Iran is the prime state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#World #Terrorism
There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Political #Middle East #Want
There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.
-- Jeffrey Goldberg

#Middle East #United States #Better Place

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