Mike Quigley Quotes
Everything is connected, so you can't just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you're managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn't work in the real world... it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Quigley, Mike. Interview. Politico, 2017.
He was shot and killed shortly after the speech.
The President was sending a message not only to the world, but to the Taft, isolationist wing of his own party.
Her reference was to the fact that when the Russians invaded Afghanistan in the Cold War, the United States decided to arm and train Islamic fighters to oust the Russians. They did, but then the Mujahideen, as the fighters were called, formed the backbone of Al Qaeda and the Taliban who turned on us.
When a major country chooses a policy or practice, their decision is not for them only Sartre observed. Others will claim the same moral, ethical and political right. And the decision may be therefore made for many nations when the original decision was thought to apply to ourselves only and in the immediate context only.
Michael Bruce Quigley is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 5th congressional district, serving since the April 7, 2009 special election. The district includes most of Chicago's North Side, as well as several of the city's western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He also teaches environmental policy and Chicago politics at Loyola University Chicago.
