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The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative. ”
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. ”
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. ”
We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us. ”
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication. ”
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. ”
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down. ”
London is a modern Babylon. ”
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ”
Strategic partnership is based on a shared set of values. ”