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- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 wounded, and the Middle East destabilized with Iranian influence enhanced.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I went door to door in my neighborhood asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then for its Israel forestation program. At the age of 11 or so, I imagined myself a regular Johnny Appleseed, responsible for vast forests.
- Muslims
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds?
- Justification
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, African Americans, former POWs, the media and, to get just a bit more specific, 'The Post.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan's acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped at a coffee shop to greet the folks and get something to eat.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived - American exceptionalism at work again.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.
- Heroism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heroism is a matter of choice.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and he is an amoral man in so many ways. But, in contrast to Obama, his emotions are no mystery.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good and generous. We believe we are a virtuous nation.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising money, like sausage-making, ain't pretty to see, and it would be just criminally naive to rely on the big hearts of big donors.
- Fence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me - I don't think 'The Post' would have hired me if I had lacked a degree - but I probably could have earned about the same if I had stayed in the insurance business, where I worked while going to college at night.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came of age when jobs were plentiful and college not exorbitantly expensive. I graduated with debt, but it was manageable, and I set off to do something I loved - journalism.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to college to make money.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In power politics, it's usually not enough to be liked. A nation has to be considered essential.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great Britain, in two world wars, not to mention a common language and, in significant respects, culture. It is based on warmth, emotion, shared values - and, not to be dismissed, a potent domestic lobby.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support for Israel certainly would be. With an indifferent America, Israel would become a lonely, frightening place.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.
- Childish
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
- Blue-Collar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I served in the Army. I worked at blue-collar jobs. I washed dishes and bused tables.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.
- Corrosive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
A presidential candidate needs a slogan.
- Face Value
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.
- Liberalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
- Bogart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that a woman's body is not her own.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.
- Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is in the White House, fulminating on Twitter, messing up foreign policy, mistaking critics for enemies, refusing to immediately and unequivocally condemn neo-Nazis, racists, and other assorted goons - and, in general, failing to provide the nation with a scintilla of moral leadership. This will last until it can't any longer.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only so much chaos a nation can stand.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.
- Fake News
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you, seven days without Wolf Blitzer is heaven. A week outside 'The Situation Room' is downright calming. No 'breaking news!' No hype. Blitzer is a first-class journalist, and I mention him only by way of acknowledging his fame.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What's the purpose?
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow us around the Internet will someday, with the click of a distant mouse, look like the jackboots of old.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020