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" I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. "

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" Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt. "

" Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. "

" I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. "

" We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. "

" There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick. "

" The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. "

" The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. "

" Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats. "

" Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. "

" If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.' "

" Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. "

" There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself. "

" The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it. "

" You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be. "

" The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect. "

" The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. "

" Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. "

" Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. "

" There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. "

" Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. "

" In midlife, we're as dumb as we get. "

" The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. "

" There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. "

" You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. "

" In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' "

" I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea. "

" Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too. "

" Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? "

" I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. "

" Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall. "