Political Quotes

the detention facility had become a propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies.

I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy that we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. I mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether be here or elsewhere.

There seems to be a lot of name calling going on. But I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.