David Corn Quotes

I think Hillary Clinton has a lot of lee way to go, either direction, and to probably most likely try to fudge it and get both parts of the party into talking points.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.

Jon Bolton is the neocon`s neocon. He was a hawk straight down the line. He wanted to bomb Iran five, six years ago before the Donald Trump election!

Donald Trump says we shouldn`t be involved in these Middle East wars, let them fight it out themselves. And yet here he is talking about literally the most hawkish guy, like Jon Bolton – maybe Frank Gaffney`s a little hawker. And so it makes you wonder what Donald Trump really believes in.

Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president’s top diplomatic priorities. He is essentially telling American Jews to get lost: ‘I have no regard for the president you support and no regard for your own political needs and desires.’

I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But to say we should move on, when the bedrock of American democracy, the sanctity of our elections, has been messed with, just raises suspicions. His denial of it happening or its seriousness shows that there is something really amiss from his end of it.

There`s a guy named Richard Spencer, who is the intellectual guru of the movement, according to Breitbart and he says, basically – this is the benign version – that he wants to convince non-whites to leave America because the races can`t get along and it`s better if they`re separate. This is a guy who is of the alt-right movement that Steve Bannon made common cause with.

I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.

The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?

This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what’s good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

This is the problem with foreign policy – talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn’t pass. And in foreign policy often what you’re doing is nuance and you’re trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn’t translate well into a political environment.