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“We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditiona...”
“With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-han...”
“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.”
“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.”
“Strength?” “Safety,” I said. And in that moment I realized that I’d always equated the two in my head, but they weren’t the same thing. Sometimes people were strongest at their most vulnerable, dan...”
“And then, to the sound of death, the sound of the jets cutting the sky in two black pieces beyond the horizon, he would lie in the loft, hidden and safe, watching those strange new stars over the r...”
“He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.”
