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- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political courage requires clarity.
- Common Cause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.
- Exodus
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020