Status Updates From Death of Outrage: Bill Clin...

“Americans know in their hearts , from their experience, that a statement can be partly true and still not be candid, forthright, or honorable.”

“Even during times of comfort and ease, there is an appropriate moment for anger at the proper things and with the proper person.”

“...the words of Aristotle. He wrote that those are to be praised who are angry at the proper things and the proper people, who are angry as they ought, When they ought and as long as they ought.”

“To be called an American citizen is perhaps the proudest title to which any citizen at any time in any country could ever claim. It is that great a privilege. It is that high an honor.”

“Law is the keystone of American society and political culture. If it does not apply to small matters concerning this President the day will come when the public will be asked to believe that it should be ignored in large matters...The rule of law, whether applied to matters trivial or grand, is the central magic of the American governmental experience . To abandon it today will lead to peril tomorrow.”

“Bill Clinton and his defenders are defining personal morality down; radically lowering the standards which we expect from our president; and changing for the worse the way politics is and will be practiced.”