Episcopalians From The United States

"He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor. Little Brian. Little Brian Kemp. Bad guy."

"Secretary Kemp has unfortunately built a very strong record of voter suppression. And, yes, he and I have—we’ve conflicted a number of times. And I think I’m very—well, I don’t think, I know—I’m very proud of our record of beating him, of forcing him to restore the canceled registrations of thousands, of compelling his office to do the right thing when it comes to voter registration. But also, I think it’s a challenging conversation to have, both with Secretary Kemp and with Lieutenant Governor Cagle, because rather than focusing on how we move the state forward, they have both focused, unfortunately, on this quieter form of bigotry, of how they want to harm communities and hold us back. I will correct one thing that the commercial played about the deportation bus: It was actually another Republican candidate, who lost."

"Somebody Has To Do Something. . . It Seems Pathetic That It Has To Be Us."

"At present the best defense against the atomic bomb is to not be there when it goes off."

"For three critical years he directed the most awesome project in the history of mankind. He was a constant source of amazement . . . He had the deep respect and admiration of his staff for his ability to organize and get things done."

"He had a fatal weakness for good men."

"I think the data that went out in the case of the Rosenbergs was of minor value. I would never say that publicly. Again that is something while it is not secret, I think should be kept very quiet, because irrespective of the value of that in the overall picture, the Rosenbergs deserved to hang, and I would not like to see anything that would make people say General Groves thinks they didn’t do much damage after all."

"At the time I was brought into the picture, research on the uses of atomic energy had been going on at a gradually accelerating pace since January, 1939, when Lise Meitner explained that the uranium atom could be split. The discovery opened up two divergent paths for its exploitation. Most physical scientsts realized that nuclear energy, derived from the splitting, or fissioning, of the atom, might be used either to generate power for peaceful purposes or to generate super-weapons. In general, however, it was the scientists who were personally acquainted with Hitler's New Order who first became most interested in the possible military uses of atomic energy and its effect on the existing balance of political power."

"First, General Groves is the biggest S.O.B. I have ever worked for. He is most demanding. He is most critical. He is always a driver, never a praiser. He is abrasive and sarcastic. He disregards all normal organizational channels. He is extremely intelligent. He has the guts to make timely, difficult decisions. He is the most egotistical man I know. He knows he is right and so sticks by his decision. He abounds with energy and expects everyone to work as hard or even harder than he does. Although he gave me great responsibility and adequate authority to carry out his mission-type orders, he constantly meddled with my subordinates. However, to compensate for that he had a small staff, which meant that we were not subject to the usual staff-type heckling. He ruthlessly protected the overall project from other government agency interference, which made my task easier. He seldom accepted other agency cooperation and then only on his own terms. During the war and since I have had the opportunity to meet many of our most outstanding leaders in the Army, Navy and Air Force as well as many of our outstanding scientific, engineering and industrial leaders. And in summary, if I had to do my part of the atomic bomb project over again and had the privilege of picking my boss I would pick General Groves."

"He's a genius. A real genius. While Lawrence is very bright, he's not a genius, just a good hard worker. Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports."

"We live in God. We move in God. We have our being in God. And when we die, we do not die into nothingness; we die into God."

"The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice."

"I am frankly an imperialist"

"It may be urged that, with the extensive sea−coast of the United States, a blockade of the whole line cannot be effectively kept up. No one will more readily concede this than officers who remember how the blockade of the Southern coast alone was maintained."

"The history of Sea Power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war."

"John McCain used to say that Russia is a gas station, run by gangsters with an army."

"It doesn't make sense that the President of the United States, who... insists on being dominant... is so submissive to... Russia's dictator, Vladimir Putin."

"So what is it about Trump and Russia, and could it have any connection with Trump's close friendship with the deceased pedaphile, Jeffrey Epstein?"

"[T]he survivors... and the millions of emails released... through the... have shed... light on the operation of the... global pedaphile ring, and over and over, it touches Russia."

"https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/"

"According to Steven Hoffenberg... [Douglas] Leese introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell. Ghislaine Maxwell, who became Epstein's... sex trafficking accomplice after her father's death, was Robert Maxwell's favorite daughter, and he involved her deeply in his work. ...Robert Maxwell had complex shifting ties to British, Soviet and Israeli intelligence. Initially bankrolled by , he accepted secret payments from the through his Soviet friendly publishing company, and... traversed both sides of the ."

"When recently asked... about the Epstein files, Trump said... "It's just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax." ..."[H]oax," the word he used for when something is true, but the most telling... is that Trump's mind, [when] asked about Epstein, immediately went to Russia."

"Epstein claimed to have given... some insight on Trump to the Russians. Epstein met on many occasions with , Russia's representative to the United Nations in 2006, until Churkin's death in 2017. Epstein wrote in an email, "Churkin was great, ...He understood Trump after our conversation. it is not complex, he must be seen to get something its that simple.""

"Epstein once took a model to , where she says Trump groped her while laughing with Epstein. She remarked that it seemed like a twisted game between the two men."

"Epstein roped many Russian and East European girls and women into his trafficking operation. The New York magazine profile... in 2002 reads, "...at a party at Maxwell's house, her friends say, one is just as apt to see Russian ladies of the night, as one is to see Prince Andrew.""

"Alan Dershowitz told the The New York Times in 2019.., "In those days, if you didn't know Trump and you didn't know Epstein, you were a nobody." Dershowitz... served both on Epstein's defense team when he was charged with having sex with minors... in 2006, and on Trump's impeachment defense team in 2020."

"Trump... said in 2002, "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy! He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.""

"The president of Trump's Atlantic City Hotel in the late 1980s said he saw Trump and Epstein together so frequently that he believed Epstein was Trump's best friend. ...[He] described the incident where Trump brought Epstein a 19 year old girl to the casino gaming floor."

"' recently reported on an alleged classified U.S. intelligence document claiming that, "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor... was drawn into Moscow's orbit thanks to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which the allegedly used as a route into the British establishment.""

"Maxwell's UK foreign office file... described him as.., "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia.""

"In 1992... The Sunday Express wrote that a secret document, signed by the head of the ... showed that Maxwell was a political and intelligence asset for the Soviet Union... [and] that Soviet leadership had instructed the KGB to protect Maxwell's reputation and business activities."

"wrote... in Rolling Stone magazine in 2021.., "Hoffenberg told me that Epstein had said he'd worked on several projects with Robert Maxwell, including solving Maxwell's 'debt' issues." ...Maxwell ...[had] stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the pensions of his employees. The story continued, Epstein... had... told Hoffenberg, that via Maxwell and [Douglas] Leese, he was involved in something that Hoffenberg described as national security issues, which he says involved , influence trading, trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous. The story concluded, "Four separate sources told me on the record that Epstein's dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the .""

"Epstein struck up a relationship with , Russia’s former deputy minister of economic development and a graduate of the FSB, Russia's intelligence academy. Epstein introduced him to contacts like Peter Thiel... who would... give $10 million to the super PAC that helped elect now-Vice President J.D. Vance to the Senate in 2022."

"[I]n the 1980s Epstein struck up a friendship with... Donald Trump. ...Michael Wolff has said.., "They shared everything. They shared their airplanes. They shared women... They shared constantly business and financial advice." ...There are many photos of the two men together on the New York and Palm Beach party circuits throughout the 1990s."

"Epstein had a series of Russian visas between 2011 and his death in 2019. Epstein's crimes left a long money trail, and that trail winds back to Russia. ...One filed by ... shows that between 2003 and 2019, Epstein conducted 4,725 wire transactions totaling over $1 billion. And that’s just one bank. Epstein used multiple banks."

"He is delusional."

"There are few things that enrage the American public more than crooked, dark money political spending. If you tried to get a dark money political spending bill through the Senate, you couldn't do it. If you tried to get it through the House, you couldn't do it. If you put the Senate and House under Republican control, you still couldn't do it, but if you have captured the Supreme Court [...] then a decision that is as unpopular and enraging as this decision comes your way, and they pulled it off in plain daylight."

"Behind Trump’s fog bank and pretexts, he and his un-elected co-president Musk are simply stealing from the American people to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. It’s gangster government."

"Despite documented warnings from their own scientists dating from the 1970s, ExxonMobil pursued a campaign of deceit, denial, and delay. They may soon have to face the consequences. History will not look kindly on their choice."

"If Trump were purposefully doing Russia's bidding, it is hard to see what he would be doing differentlty."

"Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!"

"Finally) ...over the course of my career I have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government's efforts to interfere in our election is among the most serious..."

"Second) the Justice Department has asserted privileges concerning investigative information and decisions, ongoing matters within the Justice Department, and deliberations within our office. These are Justice Department privileges that I will respect. The department has released a letter discussing the restrictions on my testimony. I therefore will not be able to answer questions about certain areas... of public interest. For example, I am unable to address questions about the opening of the FBI's Russia investigation, which occurred months before my appointment, or matters related to the... Steele dossier. These matters are the subject of ongoing review by the department. Any questions on these topics should therefore be directed to the FBI, or the Justice Department."

"It's Mueller Time."

"Trump's cavalier attitude toward the Russian security threat has had a predictable yet devastating consequence. Moscow has not been deterred from attacking American interests. It has been emboldened. They continue to take advantage of the United States, around the world and on our own soil. Former director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified in January 2019 that Russia was still sowing social, racial, and political discord in the United States through influence operations, and several months later, Robert Mueller said the same. "It wasn't a single attempt," he testified to Congress. "They're doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign." This should be a national scandal, a cause for outrage and action against the Russian government. Instead, it's being ignored where it should matter most- in the Oval Office. Reporters asked Trump about Mueller's assessment days later and quizzed him again on whether he'd pressed Putin on the topic. "You don't really believe this," he shot back. "Do you believe this? Okay, fine. We didn't talk about it." Then he boarded Marine One."

"Mueller Ain't Going Away"

"When we had these African bombings of those embassies, we had an intelligence service in there that helped us. We had law enforcement agencies that helped us. We had access. In Libya, you have a government that does not control most of Libya, or a good portion of Libya. And consequently, the ambassador, the State Department, ourselves — were pushing to get in there at the earliest possible moment. And that ended up being a couple of weeks down the road. But that does not mean that we have not very thoroughly investigated that and are continuing to investigate it. And I do believe the persons responsible will be brought to justice."

"I think we're certainly vulnerable when it comes to the type of information that is out there. The type of information that is out there and available to those that want to find it and want to damage and harm to us. We're also to a certain extent vulnerable by the fact that we live by the rules passed by Congress. If I want to get an application before the court to intercept somebody's conversations, I have to show probable cause to believe that person is affiliated with a terrorist group. And if I don't get the probable cause, I can't do it. And we've had instances, Awlaki, a relatively famous individual exporter of the type of terrorism we've seen in the United States, was doing videos for a substantial period of time before the Fort Hood shooting, and it was only after that that we found out he was involved in the operations. Any other country, they may well have been up on his wire beforehand, because there's no responsibility of showing a court that there's probable cause to believe that this individual is involved in terrorist activities."

"Being a FBI agent, being a police officer in Denver, Aurora, or any community is a tremendously rewarding job. To a certain extent, it goes up and down. It can be thankless as well. But you're really serving your community if you're serving as a police officer. I prosecuted homicide cases in Washington for almost three years, where I spent much, if not most of my time in the courtrooms along with homicide victims' families and the like, and it tears apart a community, and there's no more valuable function to the safety and security of the community than the police forces."

"I think there's a good chance we would have prevented at least a part of 9/11. In other words, there were four planes. There were almost 20 — 19 persons involved. I think we would have had a much better chance of identifying those individuals who were contemplating that attack."