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Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefe...

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I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

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The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

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Christopher HitchensThe Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircas...

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Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in ...

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The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the cli...

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I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. You...

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Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outsi...

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Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are...

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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

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It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell to...

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They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patrio...

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There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intell...

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The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of c...

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I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know...

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That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own coun...

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Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans...

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...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput...

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