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I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
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Middle Of The Road
Centrist
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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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Stone
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The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
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First Amendment
Amendment
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Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
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Desperation
Poor
Countries
Overcrowded
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The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
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Papers
Pentagon
Silence
Barrier
Case
Official
Stands
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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Civil War
Exception
Terrible
Civil
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Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
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Cia
Adhere
Insist
Presidents
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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
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Court
Covering
Decided
Special
Supreme
Supreme Court
Case
Me Always Special
Meaning
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There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
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Cold
Humanity
Logic
Theory
Require
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Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
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Arbitrary
Citizens
Hard Work
Injustice
Rulers
Trusted
Arbitrary Power
Raise
Voices
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We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
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Ghastly
Plans
Sophisticated
Aid
Designers
Programs
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Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
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Fields
Landscape
Houses
Olive
Stone
Visit
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East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.
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Belief
East
Produce
More People
Societies
Planned
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The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.
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Court
Democracy
Humanity
International
Long Term
Nuremberg
Profound
Trials
Had
Back
Before
Open
Bringing
Effect
Germans
Leaders
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Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
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Despite
Gains
Publish
Punishment
Suppression
Unwelcome
Government Democracy World
Criminal
Risks
Truths
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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
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Abide
Compel
Governments
Persuade
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Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
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Germany
Humane
Japan
Restoring
World War Ii
Wounded
War Believe World
Abroad
Enemies
War World Believe
Passionately
World War
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Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
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Attacking
Charity
Grace
Hemisphere
Intense
Patronizing
Self Interest
Southern
Longer
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
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Humane
Negotiating
Lies
Palestinians
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Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.
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Congress
Conservative
Diplomats
Foreign Aid
Legislators
Mistaken
Notion
Policy
Unimportant
Aid
Grips
Hence
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
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Claims
Human Rights
Hypocrisy
Fight World People
Led
Prisoners
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Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
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Adequate
Competent
Defense
Investigation
Resources
Starvation
Wages
Effectively
Mount
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