A for Argonaut Quotes

“America’s open society, its strongest and weakest attribute.” “Poetic”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“there was little linkage between the 1929 Crash and the Depression and that FDR’s New Deal failed to reverse the catastrophe‌—‌that”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“We have always preferred dictatorships that guarantee our access to their oil and let Israel encroach on Arab soil in Palestine.” “Funny”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“Thanks to your Disposal Service Representative friend at DRAMS, we have no trouble getting all the Defense Department’s Form 1348s and other required certification documentation we need to claim the equipment as demilitarized and move it out of DOD’s Out-of-Country Distribution Depot in Bahrain, still as deadly-effective as the day it rolled out of the arsenal factory.” “You’ve”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“The truth, he knew, was that both were statist, subverting individualism to the state, and that the line was not horizontal but a circle, with U.S. democracy on one pole and the extremes of the Left and the Right joined together in communist and fascist totalitarianism at the opposite. Maran”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“the disgraceful way President Kennedy reneged on the Cuban exiles when he called back the bombers we had pledged to use to cover them at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. We did the same with our friends in Saigon and again with the Kurds in Iraq in the first Gulf War. That wasn’t going to happen if I had a say. I wasn’t about to abandon those hostages.” “You”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“He offers a gentle hand of friendship to the oppressed of the world…He is the perfect warrior…a healer, a teacher, and an opponent of evil.” Now”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut

“Simple class-based bigotry that infected truth in the liberal media. And he knew the difference between those same propaganda dicks who distinguished between blue collar and white collar workers with the old Soviet-catchphrase, “Working Class,” as if human beings were broken down into different species according to their education or wealth or jobs. He hated that jarringly divisive phrase as the kind of Cold War propaganda that launched “class struggle” and “people’s democracy” as American political concerns, among the evil Communist movement’s greatest coups. It was something he only heard from the so-called “elites” but never back home in the old neighborhood. “Old Harbor Village housing projects.”
― Michael J. Stedman, A for Argonaut