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" Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. "

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" We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls. "

" The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. "

" We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. "

" The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. "

" Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. "

" The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' "

" Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding. "

" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "

" The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. "

" The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. "

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "

" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "

" To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy. "

" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "

" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "

" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "

" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "

" Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. "

" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "

" The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. "

" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "

" Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "

" Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. "

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "

" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "

" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "