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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Dry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
- Average American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020