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" Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. "

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" I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith. "

" In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right. "

" In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility. "

" Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions. "

" In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address. "

" Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama. "

" Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential. "

" Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep. "

" One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing. "

" We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence. "

" Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes. "

" I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word. "

" Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector. "

" Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance. "

" Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers. "

" Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings. "

" Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door. "

" Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing. "

" It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work. "

" Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed. "

" I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone. "

" I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for the poor in Nicaragua to landing prime White House internships. "

" Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice. "

" The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama's economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets. "

" We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president. "

" In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements. "

" If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter. "

" Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean. "

" Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential. "

" Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor. "