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The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.
Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.
Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.
I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.
There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.
Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.
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.
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.
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.
And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.