Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.

I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I definitely don't want to make Nicholas Kristof defend your employer, no one should have to do that but a sincere question.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.

If you are a [Hillary] Clinton supporter if you have friends who voted for [Donald] Trump it's harder to demonize that person.

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

I'm from rural Oregon, Yamhill County, a farm four miles out of a town of 1,000 people and that town is overwhelmingly pro-Trump.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.

People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election.

If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.

He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.

In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'

I do think - I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think they're evil.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to 'do' bathrooms? It's all true. Every word, and worse.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.

The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.

People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'

The American Nazi party and the KKK don't really exist in a meaningful way. They may have an office or website. But they are not tens of thousands of members.

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.

It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

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