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" Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues. "

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" You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. "

" The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff. "

" Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. "

" A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny. "

" In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. "

" Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! "

" I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' "

" The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. "

" The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it. "

" For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are. "

" The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. "

" Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics. "

" Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. "

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" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

" America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. "

" All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see. "

" The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains. "

" I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny. "

" Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. "

" The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes. "

" Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. "

" Liberals consider people to be nuisances. "

" My ignorance is widespread. "

" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "

" My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless. "

" Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom. "

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

" The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. "

" Political leaders are expert at saying nothing. "