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Henry M. Jackson

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Also known as Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson, Scoop Jackson, Henry Jackson, Henry Martin Jackson

American politician (1912–1983)

Person · Open Library

Born
1912
Died
1983
Works
11

Top works

  • Hearings
  • National land use policy
  • Decision and report to Congress on the Alaska natural gas transportation system
  • Results of an opinion survey on the 1977 budget proposal of the Energy Research and Development Administration
  • Estimates and analysis of fuel supply outlook for 1974

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Type
Person

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Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Quotes

  • In matters of national security, the best politics is no politics.
  • We all want to put the brakes on the arms race...we all want to achieve arms control...but to those who say we must take risks for peace by cutting the meat from our military muscle, I say you are unwittingly risking war.
  • When we have something we feel strongly about — and in this case it is civil liberties and freedom and what this nation was founded upon, that we should do something to implement international law — and it is international law now, the right to leave a country freely and return freely — that we should put that issue of principle on the table knowing that the Russians are not going to agree to it.
  • I believe that international terrorism is a modern form of warfare against liberal democracies. I believe that the ultimate but seldom stated goal of these terrorists is to destroy the very fabric of democracy. I believe that it is both wrong and foolhardy for any democratic state to consider international terrorism to be 'someone else's' problem.... Liberal democracies must acknowledge that international terrorism is a 'collective problem.'
  • The danger of Americans being killed, the danger of divisiveness that would accrue from those developments ... are all too real. A superpower should not play that kind of role in a cauldron of trouble, because sooner or later we are going to get hurt.

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