Lewis Black Quotes
Homeland security is a problem. It's a good idea, but it's a problem because the man who runs it is Tom Ridge, and he is someone who has the leadership qualities of a gerbil.
Lewis Black, Political Humorist & Comedian, Black on Broadway
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Early in the Donald Trump Presidency, some of his first decisions, including his Anti-Muslim ban on immigration and vistitation from 7 Islamic nations, were very distrubing to amy politicians experienced in national security and defense. 100 leaders from past adminsitrations, Democratic and Republicans, signed a petition warning that the travek ban endangered our national security. Then 1000 U. S. State Department Diplomats signed a letter advising the President to recind the order for similar reasons. Malinowski was asked if this kind of opposition to a new presidents actions was unusual. This quotation was his reply. Not the use of sarcasim. He states what happened in very stark terms and then says that it is not unusual and there is notjing to worry about, when it was withotu precedent ever and very worrisome to him and others. Quotations using sarcasim are very problimatical becasue just a literal reading, would lead us to believe he was not concened with sich a common occurance.
Lippmann was the leading political pundit of the time. He, like many others, totally underestimated Roosevelt whose easy-going manner, and non ideological style tended to put off ideologues and some intellectuals. See {609696}.
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.
This quotation is one of the few honest answers that government politicians give to questions about the effectiveness of prevention. All prevention whether it is to reduce terrorist attacks, fatal crashes on out highways, illicit drug usage or anything else, have two major problems in terms of communicating effectiveness. First, it is impossible to accurately measure what did not happen. Second, whereas prevention failures have real people and faces of the victims can be identified, it is impossible to identify the specific benefits of prevention. We know who died in the Boston Marathon bombing, but we do not know exactly who was saved by the prevention of a planned terrorist attack that was thwarted in New York. Even when the government does know that a terrorist attack was thwarted, it is rarely a good idea to make that information public as then the tourists will learn details of how a particular planned attack went awry, whereas if the government is silent, they have much less information and cannot easily adjust their strategy and tactics.
Lewis Niles Black is an American actor and stand-up comedian. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, or any other cultural trends. He hosted the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show delivering his "Back in Black" commentary segment, which he has been doing since The Daily Show was hosted by Craig Kilborn.
