Eric Liu Quotes
America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
Liu, Eric, and Nick Hanauer. The True Patriot: A Pamphlet. Sasquatch Books, 2007.
Bush adopted a foreign policy of unilateralism which was offensive to and resented by most of the foreign countries with whom we had good relations. Many people thought it would take years to repair the damage, but President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were able to turn the situation around in a few years. The George W. Bush administration, in contrast to his father’s administration, was considered an aberration in American foreign policy by most countries.
While this probably was a slip of the tongue, President Bush and governor Perry both had civil right and individual had rights as a lower priority than a individual responsibility, strong growth economy or the military. There were many who really believed that the two men really thought excessive personal reedom a problem that people and the government must be protected from, like freedom for a woman to choose an abortion. For Perry in particular many thought that if this was a slip of the tounge, it was likely a Freudian slip as it what he really wants.
Eric P. Liu (born 1968) is a Chinese American writer and founder of Citizen University. Liu served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy at the White House between 1999 and 2000. He served as Speechwriter and Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council at the White House from 1993 to 1994. President Obama nominated him in January 2015 to serve on the board of directors of the federal Corporation for National and Community Service and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate; his term expired in December 2017.
