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" There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational. "

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" I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class. "

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" Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too. "

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" I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it. "

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" The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up. "

" The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won. "

" Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't. "

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" People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience. "

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" Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. "

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" No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all. "

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" The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. "