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

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" Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry. "

" 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. "

" The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. "

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

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

" Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. "

" People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. "

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

" A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox. "