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Do what you are doing. Monastic motto
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Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.
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Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.
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To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.
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Perlstein says a movement gives you a chance, to make anger boiling inside you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering.
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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
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Chits knew no ideology.
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Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.
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Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.
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Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.
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This trip was not about running for president. This trip was preparing to BE president.
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He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.
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What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.
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Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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Ideas in politics are often intuition fancy dress.
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I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
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They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.
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Politics is motion." John Sears
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I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
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Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
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When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
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I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
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An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.
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I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
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Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.
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We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
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When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
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In Texas, the lies wore cowboy boots.
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Now even reformers needed political machines.
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One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.
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Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.
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They made strategy at 33,000 feet (on) the campaign plane.
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Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?
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He fetishized limits.
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College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.
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The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.
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Insistent opening bark of the UPI's Helen Thomas:
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Wartime experience as an Office of Price Administration consultant for the candy industry
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In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
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For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
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I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
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In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
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Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
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Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'
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Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch.
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A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.
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People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group.
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Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
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Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.
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