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" During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand. "

Pat Buchanan

Cold

Back

War

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World

Change

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" As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs. "

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" 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. "

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" While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right. "

" I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility. "

" If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are? "

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" All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers. "

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Hour

Liberal

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" Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval. "

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