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People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them.
It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment.
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.
We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.
If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.
I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.
The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.
We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.
When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.
I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.
When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.
I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.
The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.
If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal.
If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.
People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."
Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.
If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.
We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.
Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.
I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.
It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.
It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?
People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.
I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.
If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.
I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.
Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.
The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.
Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.