Jon Meacham Quotes - Page 3

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• An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

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  Epic, Skills, Perfect

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• The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

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  Religious, Prayer, School

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• Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

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  Warrior, Political, Tough

  "Why Obama Owns bin Laden" by Jon Meacham, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

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  Heart, Hands, Different

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• In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.

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  Determination, War, Circles

  Jon Meacham (2003). “Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship”, p.58, Random House

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• An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

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  Important, Remember, Bias

  "My Father, My President" by Doro Bush, (p. 218), October 2006.

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• While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

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  Christian, Religious, Character

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• The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

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  Past, Greatness, History

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• The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

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  War, America, Government

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• Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

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  Party, Odds, White

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• Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

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  Military, Economic, National Security

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• I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

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  Father, Gun, Rifles

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• I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

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  Fate, Thinking, Answers

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• The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

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  Fighting, Support, Intellectual

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

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  Christian, Religious, Fall

  "Jon Meacham: Covering Conflict". Interview with Randall Balmer, ircpl.org. October 28, 2009.

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• One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

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  Heirs, Debate, Resurrection

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• I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

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  Two, People, Grandparent

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• It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

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  Religious, Race, Issues

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• Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

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  Greatness, Presidential, Republican

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• Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

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  Religious, Elements, Given

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• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

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  Running, Thinking, Umpires

  "Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 2, 2012.

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• In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.

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  Jobs, Book, Journey

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• Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

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  Gun, America, Common Sense

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• We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

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  Interesting, Trying, Males

  "Official Statement on NEWSWEEK's Sarah Palin Cover". www.newsweek.com. November 17, 2009.

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• The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

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  Country, Wall, America

  "Show Them the Money" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. October 12, 2011.

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