Marvin Kalb
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“And so, with all due respect to the office you hold, Mr. President, the “enemy of the people” is not the press. It is you.”
― Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
― Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
“when Yushchenko arrived in Washington, he was greeted with the pomp and circumstance reserved for popular kings or democratic pin-ups, such as Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela, or Pope John Paul II—he was invited to address a joint meeting of Congress, where he spoke boldly about helping Bush and the United States promote democracy and freedom in neighboring Belarus and Castro's Cuba. “Yushchenko! Yushchenko!” members of Congress roared, ten times rising to their feet in rapturous applause for this newly elected symbol of democracy on the rise in eastern Europe. Yushchenko”
― Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
― Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
“If a political leader finds it to his advantage to attack a free press, to humiliate it, to disparage it, he is really attacking democracy at its core, and that has no place in this country.”
― Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
― Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
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