Gina Raimondo Quotes
My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.
Raimondo, Gina. Interview. The Providence Journal, 2014.
This slogan was used by the Know-Nothing Party because they would rather continue to accept slavery than plunge the nation into a civil war.
He was wrong and the Boer War resulted
At the beginning of his Presidency Roosevelt urged Congress to disarm. A few years later he was urging heavy expenditures for armaments and Congress was then reluctant.
The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.
Gina Marie Raimondo is an American politician and venture capitalist serving as the 40th and current United States Secretary of Commerce since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 75th and first female Governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021.