Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 41.
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 41.
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 242.
With Norton Mezvinsky.
Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel (1997)
Excerpts from an address to the Commonwealth Workshop in Nadi, 29 August 2005
“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”
Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome
Writing on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing
2010s
Context: p>Americans have more freedom and broader rights than citizens of almost any other nation in the world, including the capacity to criticize their government and their elected officials. But we do not have the right to resort to violence — or the threat of violence — when we don’t get our way. Our founders constructed a system of government so that reason could prevail over fear. Oklahoma City proved once again that without the law there is no freedom.Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician and demonizing the government that guarantees our freedoms and the public servants who enforce our laws.</p
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
2014, Address to European Youth (March 2014)
Context: Of course, neither the United States nor Europe are perfect in adherence to our ideals, nor do we claim to be the sole arbiter of what is right or wrong in the world. We are human, after all, and we face difficult choices about how to exercise our power. But part of what makes us different is that we welcome criticism, just as we welcome the responsibilities that come with global leadership.
