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" American presidential leadership never goes out of style. "
Monica Crowley
Never
Leadership
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" The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay. "
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" Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat. "
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" Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying. "
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" During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.' "
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" The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it. "
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Order
Handle
" The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office. "
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Us
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" American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. "
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" I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty. "
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Freedom
" Bill Clinton wanted to survive. And Bill Clinton wanted to thrive, not just for himself, although that's primarily what drives Bill Clinton. He's a classic narcissist. So of course he wanted to thrive and succeed. But he also wanted America to thrive and succeed, which is why he worked with a Republican Congress. "
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America
He
Succeed
" Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived. "
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Difficulties
" Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president. "
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" Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war. "
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War
World
End
" I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost. "
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American
Believe
People
" There were no dead bodies in Watergate. "
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Were
Dead
Watergate
" Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents. "
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Potential
Simple
Two
" During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True. "
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Story
Childhood
Life
" When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards. "
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Great Things
Government
Great
" Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state. "
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Jewel
Welfare
State
" In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government. "
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Short
Balance
Government
" Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. "
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May
Out
" Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly. "
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Must
Forms
Back
" Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony. "
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Delicious
Seems
New
" In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.' "
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Started
Know
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" One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else. "
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" Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively. "
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Far
Clouds
" In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence. "
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Marriage
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Wife
" Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement. "
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Earth
Street
Spring
" A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party. "
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Judgment
Bad
Reward
" Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes. "
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He
Street
Wall