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

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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car worker...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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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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The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.

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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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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