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We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.
There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.
I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.
Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.
[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.
Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.
If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.
On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.
Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.
Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.
We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?
The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.
Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.
It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...
You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.
I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.
Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.
If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.
[Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.
The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?
Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.
During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.
In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.
Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.
If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.
I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.
If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.
They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.
I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.
Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.
In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.
The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.
Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?
[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.
The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.
Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.
The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.
My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the establishment win yet again and the revolution doesn't happen.
The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.
I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.