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It's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense,
More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost.
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.
How Giuliani is not Trump's running mate no one will ever understand. Theirs is the most passionate love story since Beavis and Butthead.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
Yes, let's build a wall, but let's do it to help African-Americans! It's alt-right meets Civil Rights! The best crossover hit since "Walk This Way"!
More and more often, we all make silent calculations about who is entitled to what rights, and who is not.
America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call.
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.
Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's - that's usually the way this business works.
In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump A
Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark.
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.