David K. Shipler Quotes & Sayings

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12 most famous David K. Shipler quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.”
“There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.”
David K. Shipler Quotes
“Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.”
“Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.”

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