John Warner Quotes
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
Warner, John. Press release on the Omnibus Appropriations Bill. Office of Senator John Warner, 21 Nov. 2004.
At the time, the President thought the accusation about the White House was unlikely and just the accusations of political enemies and he said he would fire anyone who made such a leak. The quote became memorable when it came out that it there were two White House leakers, including the President’s closest political advisor, Karl Rove. Thereafter, the President not only did not fire anyone, but refused to even discuss the matter saying that there were potential criminal proceeding underway.
The “remarks” were complaints to the legal authorities that her husband had been just lynched. The language of AP describing the event of the late 19th century was all the more remarkable since Ms. Turner was 8 months pregnant. She was hung upside down, and while still alive her belly was slit open. When the baby fell out and started to cry, one of the Valdosta citizens crushed its head with his boot heel. Then they doused her with gasoline and burned her alive. The mob then fired hundreds of shots into Turner's body. This quotation shows how even the national Associated Press syndicate felt it had to report a lynching, torture, infanticide amd murder without any moral or ethical commentary as if they were reporting a drought or an auto accident. The domination of Jim Crowe attitudes in the South and even parts of the North surpressed serious journalism regarding lynchings until Ida Wells {624106} made the breakthrough.
He was referring to writer and filmmaker Michael Moore who was one of the President’s most vocal and caustic critics. See {615194} for an example.
A few American soldiers working as prison guards and interrogators at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq, with poor supervision and mixed signals from the generals and other officers, engaged in a variety of sordid, illegal abuse of Arab. Prisoners ranging from harassment to torture and murder. One activity involved putting a dog leash around the necks of Muslim naked prisoners who were forced to crawl around like a pet dog—hence the reference to a “leash”.
John William Warner III is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. He currently works for the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he had previously worked before joining the United States Department of Defense as the Under Secretary of the Navy during the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1969.