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

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" I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan. "

" War diminishes both civil and economic rights. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" 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. "

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

" Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. "

" New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say. "

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

" Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English. "

" People love to be told what they know already. "

" Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

" I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true. "

" Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. "

" Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. "

" One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. "

" Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. "

" You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. "

" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "

" A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. "

" Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. "

" We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter. "

" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "

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

" Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help? "

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

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" Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have. "

" I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory. "

" We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. "