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" Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. "
Sometimes
Political
Eye
" Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all. "
Last
President
Presence
" Bush began helping Enron in the eighties. "
Bush
Eighties
Enron
" But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives. "
People
Back
Fight
" Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. "
Debate
Defining
Generally
" I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know. "
Time
Know
American
" I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. "
Looking
Other
People
" If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. "
Republican
Judiciary
Seen
" I grew up in Tom DeLay's district. "
District
Grew
Up
" I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends. "
Vacation
Love
School
" I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? "
Marriage
America
Girl
" I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic. "
Sunny
You
Know
" I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up. "
Up
Beginning
Democrats
" I try hard to be a good Catholic. "
Try
Catholic
Good
" It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. "
Right
American
Democrats
" It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. "
Life
Human
Answer
" I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run. "
Run
Used
Could
" I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose. "
Lose
Win
Numbers
" Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win. "
Win
Me
Meet
" My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him. "
Connection
Real
View
" One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics. "
Winning
Election
Strategy
" Politics is show business for ugly people. "
Ugly
Business
Show
" See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners. "
Sleeping
Truth Is
Truth
" So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored. "
War
Service
Important
" There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals. "
Problem
Fight
Great
" This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay. "
Life
Survival
Political
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