"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."

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Source : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.

Jeffrey Goldberg

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“People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.”
“While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.”
“I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!”
“It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.”
“I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?”
“There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.”
“Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like a Quaker, but when you think about it, is a week a long time to wait? To see if a former mental patient is qualified to own an Uzi? Con one, will ya Congress? It takes three weeks to get a phone!”
“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

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