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James Abourezk Quotes

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

James Abourezk
Government, Giving, Credit

The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

James Abourezk
Lying, Hero, Government

Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It's a racist sort of thing, really racist - you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists - they were terrorists - and saying all the Arabs are like them.

James Abourezk
Racism, Perfect, Racist
"Former U.S. Sen. James Abourezk on Hizbullah TV: The Arabs Involved in 9/11 Were Cooperating with the Zionists; People in America Don't Really Look at it That Deeply; They Accept What the Government and the Press Are Saying". "Al-Manar TV" Interview, www.memri.org. August 30, 2007.

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