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" According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit. "
White
White House
House
" American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose. "
Lost
Purpose
American
" Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic. "
Who
Power
Show
" By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond. "
Creating
You
I Can
" Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives. "
Great
Today
Society
" Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another. "
High
Want
Trying
" I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater. "
Priest
Miss
Far
" I don't want just attitude and loud opinion. "
Want
Just
Opinion
" I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data. "
Over
Data
Questions
" I like good humor. "
Good
Humor
Like
" I'm proud to be associated with the public policies of Richard Nixon. "
Richard Nixon
Proud
Public
" In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show! "
Watch
Why
People
" I predict 2016 will be a year of upheaval and realignment across the world. China's economy will continue to sputter. Commodity exporting countries will suffer. Europe's growth will remain flat-lined. The U.S. will plug along at under 3% growth. "
Year
Predict
World
" I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants. "
Weather
Immigrants
Flood
" It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized. "
Somewhere
Terrible
Recognized
" Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously. "
Days
Get
Meet
" Liberals always blame the other guy. "
Guy
Liberals
Other
" Libertarianism is on its way! "
Way
" My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally. "
Pace
Feeling
Changes
" My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate. "
Devil
Position
Detective
" My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean. "
People
People Say
Pressure
" Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness. "
American
Today
Free
" Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission. "
Sex
Experience
Intense
" President Obama took charge of the Oval Office seven years ago. He promised a positive reset in relations with Russia. But with the radioactive poisoning of a British spy in London, the downing of passenger jets over Europe, and the aggressive advances of Russian forces from Ukraine to Syria, President Putin of Russia has rebuked Mr. Obama. "
London
Aggressive
Office
" Radio, in a way, is preaching. "
Preaching
Way
Radio
" Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English. "
Speak
Television
American
" Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities. "
Student
Act
College
" The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant. "
Like
Chant
Need
" There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing. "
Rearing
Experience
Substitute
" What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions. "
Clash
Ideas
Opinions
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