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If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.
[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.
It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.
John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.
It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.
The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.
Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.
Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.
Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.
Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.
A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.
The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.
There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.
I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.
There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].
When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.
The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.
Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that
We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.
The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.
From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.
We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'
America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.
Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.
If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.