"Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims."

-- Yaroslav Trofimov

#America Quotes #Abuse Quotes #World Quotes

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“True influence drives action, not just awareness.”
“We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it. But when you look at how we are failing our kids and how the story that they hear about the United States and about the role we've played in the world and our role as the defender of freedom for millions across the world throughout history, you know, they aren't being prepared to stand up and work and fight and defend this nation.”

Source : "Liz Cheney: We Must Unify Behind Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2016.
“I reject most conventional wisdom.”
“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.”
“We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost everywhere there seems to me to be an increase in incompetence and general dishonesty. This is what I mean about democracy - you feel that you've got the ability to arrange things and influence matters and it's not quite so easy as that, I'm afraid.”

Source : Source: strandmag.com
“I am just trying to keep it real.”
“Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like”

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