The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.
John LewisYou have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John LewisI think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
John LewisDNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.
John LewisIf we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.
John Lewis