Jeffrey Goldberg Quotes

Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we’ve ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.

There’s practical political considerations obviously, but there’s also these broader themes, which is like, I don’t want to be the manager of the Middle East.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They’re going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you’re willing to bomb someone.

Iran is the prime state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.

There’s nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.