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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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