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" In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides. "

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" Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken. "

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" Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't. "

" Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel. "

" Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington. "

" The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about. "

" I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. "

" I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back. "

Tucker Carlson

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" I try to tell the truth. "

" Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary. "

" I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12. "

" There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart. "

" I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class. "

" Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives. "

" The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up. "

" My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life. "

" I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective. "

" You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision. "

" People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.' "

" I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am. "

Tucker Carlson

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" Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai. "

" He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him. "

" People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience. "

" People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car? "

" As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person. "

" There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational. "

" Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot. "

" Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target. "

" The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art. "

" To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it? "

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" Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public. "