Latest Dalia Mogahed Quotes from Interviews

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• I just want to point out that Warren Harding, The Times assailed his nomination for president.And we can see how effective that was.

  Dalia Mogahed

  President, Want, Nominations

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• Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following this terror attack?" Let me tell you something. I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Jobs, Islamic, Views

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• They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Gun, Talking, Law

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• I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Thinking, Guy

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• If you look at Paris, they didn't have guns and they were slaughtered. If you look at what happened in California, they didn't have guns, they were slaughtered. They could've protected themselves if they had guns.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Gun, California, Paris

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• Because people were attracted to him because he was not elected to an office. He was not a politician. And like you said before, he was a person that people say "Wow! He has the idea!" But the more and more you listen to Donald Trump, the more you have the sense that he is not the person that's going to run the country. And I have strong views.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Running, Country, Strong

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• Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Thinking, People, Nightmare

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• [Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris] Christie, and [Marco] Rubio. But they've all avoided him in one form or another.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Three, Form, Trump

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• I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going to have to find a way either to out-maneuver him, or to just frankly beat him in the argument.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Clever, Simple, Thinking

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

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• If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Thinking, Needs, Want

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• I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, "Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president." That's what you need.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Wall, Thinking, Race

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• What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Want, Voters, Republican

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• Republicans advising candidates to "grab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda," but warning that Trump is a "misguided missile," "subject to farcical fits" and candidates should avoid getting drawn into "every Trump dust-up," but should quickly condemn some of his comments, including "wacky things about women."

  Dalia Mogahed

  Dust, Agendas, Elements

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• Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Running, Race, Years

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• The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Mean, Records, Whispering

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• As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

  Dalia Mogahed

  Anxiety, Panic, Fields

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• Muslims are the primary victims of ISIS. Muslims are the ones who want to do the most to defeat this ideology. It's important that we don't do their propaganda for them, by giving them the legitimacy that they crave.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Giving, Important

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• I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Thinking, Isis, Enemy

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• This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it up in Pakistan, where the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary, and our young wife in California would've picked up an item like this. And it puts out that Salafi-Wahhabi ideology that is ultimately the toxic poison that is crossing all these borders.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Book, Government, California

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• You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Ostriches, Issues, People

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• We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Issues, Want, Serious

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• We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Country, Gun, People

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• Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.

  Dalia Mogahed

  People, United States, States

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