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" Abortion is either OK or it's not. "
Abortion
OK
Either
" A great speech is literature. "
Literature
Great
Speech
" All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. "
Tell
Stories
Political
" Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. "
Politics
Bright
Interesting
" Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. "
Equality
Compliment
True
" Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out. "
Out
Working
Democracy
" Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. "
Disappointment
Love
Just
" If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault. "
Crazy
Fault
You
" If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else. "
Move On
Government
Do Your Best
" I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. "
Love
Speech
Short
" I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything. "
Everything
I Can
Mind
" I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. "
Miracles
Beyond
World
" Let's cause some senators distress. "
Cause
Some
Senators
" Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.' "
Bad
Road
Country
" My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. "
Despair
Generation
Choice
" Part of courage is simple consistency. "
Part
Courage
Consistency
" Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off. "
Expectation
Right
History
" Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. "
Strong
Everything
Politics
" Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. "
Policy
Great
Magic
" The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. "
Going
Earth
Election
" The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. "
Mind
World War I
World
" The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be. "
Balance
You
Work
" There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views. "
Political
Nothing
Conservative
" TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. "
Brains
Radio
Image
" You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. "
America
Say
World
" You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them. "
Better
Stereotypes
People
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