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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems....more

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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing...more

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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry;...more

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the I...more

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Space has always been confusing to politics.

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We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...

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I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.” And so I said...more

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Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

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Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are r...more

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the par...more

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the...more