Jeffrey Goldberg Quotes

• If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Mean, Healthy, France

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• Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Law, Circles, Mentor

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• Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  World, Being The Best, Mechanic

  "In Cuba, Hints of Dramatic Change Emerge from Fidel Castro". "PBS Newshour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. September 15, 2010.

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• I would say that to vote for Trump was to at least overlook the fact that we're talking about someone with a record of misogyny and racist invective. And so that is what is troubling to a lot of people and that's what makes this election, among other things, makes this election very different than others is that those good, decent people over - at least overlooked a very, very sorry record of prejudice.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Sorry, People, Different

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Brother, Thinking, Stronger

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

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Bombs, Reason, Worst

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

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• I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Golf, Golf Course

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Arab leadership, after so many years of Obama, they're positively giddy about the arrival of Donald Trump. And when they are giddy, like any other leaders, they might over step. And the danger, of course, is initiating a confrontation with Iran that the U.S. really doesn't want to be involved with at any given moment. They have enough to worry about on the North Korea file.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Worry, Leader, Moments

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Iran is the prime state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  World, Terrorism

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Political, Middle East, Want

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

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• There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Middle East, United States, Better Place

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

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