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" The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care. "

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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. "

" If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? "

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

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

" Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox. "

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

" Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions. "

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

" People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. "

" Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity. "

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