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

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" Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. "

" America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently. "

" 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. "

" So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. "

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

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

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" If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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