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Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
~ Anthony Lewis
Adhere
American
CIA
Directors
I Think
Insist
Law
Left
Presidents
Think
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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
~ Anthony Lewis
Abide
Around
Compel
Effort
Governments
Many
Our
Over
Own
Persuade
Put
Risk
Rules
States
United
United States
Worked
World
Years
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The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
~ Anthony Lewis
Amendment
Everything
First
First Amendment
Important
Very
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The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.
~ Anthony Lewis
Back
Before
Bringing
Court
Democracy
Effect
Germans
Had
Humanity
International
Leaders
Long-Term
Nuremberg
Open
Profound
Trials
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
~ Anthony Lewis
Failures
Fault
Humane
Israel
Land
Lies
Life
Matter
Negotiating
Only
Other
Own
Palestinians
Past
Path
Political
Security
Way
Where
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The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
~ Anthony Lewis
Barrier
Case
Official
Papers
Pentagon
Silence
Stands
Today
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There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
~ Anthony Lewis
Beauty
Cold
Community
Culture
Humanity
Logic
Market
May
Require
Theory
Values
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
~ Anthony Lewis
American
Claims
Fight
Human
Hypocrisy
Led
Makes
Moral
Our
Ourselves
People
Prisoners
Rights
See
Sense
Way
World
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We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
~ Anthony Lewis
Aid
Designers
Ghastly
Learned
Make
Mistakes
Now
Plans
Programs
Should
Sophisticated
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
~ Anthony Lewis
America
Civil
Civil War
Constitution
Exception
Free
Kept
Law
Terrible
War
Whole
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Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Agency
Any
Anyone
Approval
Been
Eye
Government
Knows
Read
Series
Skies
Terror
Toward
Writing
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Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Access
Accident
After
Because
Denied
Designed
Facilities
Fatal
Feet
First
Flew
Fly
July
Launch
Low
Official
Over
Photographs
Pilot
Project
Sea
Take
Territory
Weapons
Where
Without
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Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
~ Annie Jacobsen
Backward
Bend
Democratic
Few
Fight
Nation
Offend
Over
Rights
Same
Same Time
Terror
Time
Visitors
War
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In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Airplane
American
Arms
Arms Race
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Before
Bomb
Crash
Decided
Defense
Department
Disaster
Full
Had
Just
Likes
Matter
Never
Race
Radioactive
Seen
Soil
Swing
Time
Which
World
Would
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On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Air
Armed
Between
Bomb
Bomber
Bombs
Command
Countryside
Crisis
Dirty
Flying
Four
Hydrogen
January
Morning
Occurred
Over
Spain
Spanish
Strategic
Yields
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Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Been
Before
Charged
Crime
Criticized
Department
Even
Ever
Fighting
Has-Been
Heavy
Justice
Justice Department
Long
Long Periods
Particular
Periods
Persons
Puts
Questioning
Since
Suspicious
Tactic
Terror
Them
Time
Uses
War
Widely
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The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Accepted
Battlefield
Become
Cold
Cold War
Deception
Disguise
Distortion
Had
Marked
Promised
Reality
Truth
War
Were
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His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
~ Arthur Baer
Feet
Full
Head
His
Honest
Larceny
Were
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If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
~ Arthur Baer
End
Laid
Laws
Our
Would
Would-Be
You
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It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
~ Arthur Baer
Begins
Impossible
Justice
Law
Stops
Tell
Where
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