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" Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it. "

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" While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign. "

" He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first. "

" The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over. "

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" That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd. "

" How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt? "

" With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A. "

" If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows. "

" Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant. "

" I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense. "

" My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it. "

" Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol? "

" Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote? "

" If the GOP wants to know why it lost the Reagan Democrats, it is because the GOP exported their jobs to Mexico and China. "

" How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely? "

" One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations. "

" Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. "

" While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded. "

" Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party. "

" Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal. "

" I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal. "

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" As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits? "

" Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes. "

" What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders? "

" What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States. "

" Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest. "