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" I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. "

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" If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. "

" As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. "

" I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. "

" Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity. "

" Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. "

" Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to. "

" The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. "

" So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. "

" Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. "

" Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them. "

" Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. "

" America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently. "

" My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill. "

" If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? "

" The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. "

" In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it. "

" The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care. "

" There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions. "

" I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. "

" Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. "

" Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents. "

" The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party. "

" My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money. "

" Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? "

" My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached. "

" What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance. "

" A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. "

" Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally. "

" There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people. "

" People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events. "