"Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone."

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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

#Bombs Quotes #Reason Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.”
“Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.”

Source : "Rick Santelli: I'm proud to be a firebrand" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.
“I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2007). “The Diary of a Chambermaid”, Harper Collins
“This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.”
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”

Source : "Daughters of the Promised Land, Women in American History" by Page Smith, (p. 273), 1970.
“I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space”

Source : Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 26, 1863.

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