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" Three times as many people watch Fox every day as watch CNN. "
Susan Estrich
Watch
People
Every Day
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" Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps. "
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" My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best: makeup, high heels, a well-fitting suit that shows off their figure. And I always tell them to make sure to wear a shirt under the suit jacket. Form fitting, yes. Cleavage, no. "
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" Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses. "
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" I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event. "
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" Everybody knows I'm a Democrat. "
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" Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. "
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" John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. "
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" Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer? "
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" If you're responsible, and you're willing to take responsibility, we'll give you a pass. "
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" The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable. "
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" One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict. "
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Risks
Public
" Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it. "
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People
" When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. "
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You
Hard
" Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning. "
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Winning
" But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early. "
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You
Run
Serious
" In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. "
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Candidate
Wins
Taller
" Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. "
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Meant To Be
Move On
Now
" When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map. "
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College
Boston
Map
" There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future. "
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" I don't like cheap shots, I really don't. "
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" Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change. "
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" Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. "
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" Al Gore didn't need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people's estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost. "
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" Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal. "
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" Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president. "
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" It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever. "
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Election
" Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience. "
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Win
Battle
" The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from. "
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