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Liberals always cry wolf.
I will never vote for Donald Trump.
I write my columns pretty carefully.
Free trade was once a Republican conviction.
Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.
Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.
In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.
An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.
The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.
The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.
I have a very, very hard time voting for Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton.
When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.
My wife is German, so I know something about German energy policy.
My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.
Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.
We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He's delivered.
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.
There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.
In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.
The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.
I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.
Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.
The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.
Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.
Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.
In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.
The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.
The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.
I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.
I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
What too many of Mr. Trump's supporters want is an American strongman, a president who will make the proverbial trains run on time.
I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.
I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.