Quotes
We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end. And, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
Another hint of US Middle East policy came in the inaugural address when Trump declared It’s not our war. It is their war. I am not confident. But I think they’re [Hamas] very weakened on the other side.”
Another indication of this came when the president, asked whether the Gaza ceasefire would hold through all its phases, responded bluntly You certainly can’t have the people that were there, ... Most of them are dead, by the way, right?”
he said when asked about who will govern Gaza in the future ... the president continued It is US policy to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”
This executive order states I looked at a picture of Gaza. Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is – it’s really got to be rebuilt in a different way,
It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country,
Trump said, in a typical boast In 2017, he just wasn’t really prepared from the get-go to be president. He won kind of unexpectedly. Didn’t win the popular vote. There were all the questions of legitimacy, both externally and even his own party,
said Aaron Kall, director of the University of Michigan’s National Championship-winning debate team I was saved by God to make America Great Again,
Trump said Monday in a follow-up to his “American Carnage” first inaugural in 2017, this one delivered in the US Capitol Rotunda after frigid weather moved the ceremony inside I will fight for you, and I will win for you.”
Trump ended his second inaugural address by telling ... He added Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed, to take my life,
he said, referring to failed legal attempts to call him to account for January 6 and the first of two assassination attempts against him We have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding Americans citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals,
We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent and totally unpredictable,
We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world. And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves.”
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago, ... so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"
the Great Emancipator declared The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,
is how Chief Justice Roberts phrased it more than a decade ago in a crucial Supreme Court decision, and that belief is the essence of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as amended: The assertion of that principle, ... at that time, was the word, ‘fitly spoke’ which has proved an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was made, not to conceal, or destroy the apple; but to adorn, and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple---not the apple for the picture."
The expression of that principle, ... Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. No oppressed people will fight and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better than a mere change of masters."
asserted Lincoln, ... Our greatest president continued So let us act, ... that neither picture, or apple shall ever be blurred, or bruised or broken. That we may so act, we must study, and understand the points of danger."
Lincoln admonished all American citizens then living and in the future We will forge a policy that is color blind and merit based."
President Trump’s Second Inaugural address had at its core the crucial promise In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem
Trump could quote Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address
