"Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible."

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Source : "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

David B. Rivkin

#Country Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Terrorism Quotes

“I walked in a desert. And I cried, â€˜Ah, God, take me from this place!â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™ I cried, â€˜Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™”

Source : Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America
“I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”
“You donâ€™t have the same type of focus when you are undefeated.”
“Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.”
“I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.”
“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”
“You are like nobody since I love you.”
“Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.”

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