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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.
In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him.
I know my husband loves me fiercely and passionately. I know he supports me and will always stand up for me.
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.
Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.
One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.
Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.
Violence against women is a huge issue. A good feminist should be working on that - making the world a safer place for girls and women, wherever they live.
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.
I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.