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Always attack, never defend.
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I try hard to be a good Catholic.
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Catholic
Hard
Trying
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I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.
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Delay
District
Tom
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I think his deepest quality is empathy.
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Quality
Empathy
Thinking
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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
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Enron
Helping
Began
Bush
Eighties
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Politics is show business for ugly people.
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Business
People
Political
Show Business
Ugly
Ugly People
Politics Business People
Show
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Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.
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I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.
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Knows
Sunny
Sunny Day
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Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
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Destroying
Opponents
Himself
Interrupt
Opponent
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I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.
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Marriages
Voyeur
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Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.
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Century
Finest
Mind
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Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.
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Defining
Winning
Dictates
Generally
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I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.
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Thinking
Democrats
Toughen
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[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.
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Tea
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I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.
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Glad
National Security
People
Security
Time People Will
American People
Spend
National
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It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
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America
Beloved
Mccain
Song
Bush
George
George Bush
John
Popular
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I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.
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Vacation
Bible
Catholic
Friend Love
Fundamentalist
School
To Love
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It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
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Democrat
People
Seems
Vietnam
Me People Never
American People
Me People American
Democrats
Forgave
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Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
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Politicians
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When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.
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Integrity
Mean
White
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If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program.
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Campaigns
Joining
Wife
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The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.
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Convincing
Differences
President
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Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.
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American History
Bills
Clinton
Couple
Bill
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Thoroughly
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It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.
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Children
Sometimes
Way
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I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
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Clinton
Comfortable
Guy
Numbers
Polling
Winning
Bill
Bill Clinton
Final
Lead
Gotten
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It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
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Answers
Citizens
Clinton
House
Instinct
Taught
Life Your Me
Citizen
Life Me Your
Human Being
Right Answer
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See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
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No Reason
Party
Sleep
Thinking
Truth Is
Prefer
One Party
Sinners
Sleeping
Whom
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Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.
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Amiable
Lasts
Months
Policy
Presidency
President
President Reagan
Effect
Last
National
National Policy
Presence
Ranch
Reagan
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There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.
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Definitions
Fighting
Lines
Definition
Fellow
Liberal
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So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
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War
American Troops
Fighting
Honored
Important
Troops
Unjust
Vietnam
Casualty
Important Lesson
Lesson
Service
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If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
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Clinton
Deceptive
Lying
Oath
People
Sex
Certainly
Lie
In Fact
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Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.
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Community
Light
Mirrors
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If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.
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Father
Long
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But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.
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Clinton
Fighting
Issues
Staying
Thinking
Fight People Way
Fought
Mattered
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This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.
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Clinton
Life Lesson
Okay
People
Political
Survival
Life Political Your
Life Political Me
Bill
Bill Clinton
Fundamental
Lesson
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Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
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Blind
Enemy
Eye
Political
President
Zealous
Again
Attacks
Seen
Blind Eye
Bush
Directly
Encouraged
Enemies
Himself
Leveled
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My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
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Clinton
Compact
Sacred
Campaign
People Connection Real
Connection
Saw
View
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One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
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Election
Forget
Lost
Ought
Party
Presidential
Presidential Election
Sight
Strategy
Tactics
Winning
Between
Often
Difference
Nominee
Saw
Last
One Of The Problems
Problems
While
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You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician's policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.
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Choices
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Crazy
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Rick Perry is the perfect candidate for those who thought George W. Bush was just too dang cerebral. And Adios, Mofo is the perfect guide to his record, his rhetoric and his remarkable hair. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll vote.
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Hair
Laughing
Perfect
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Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?
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Payroll Tax
People
Want
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Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at CROSSFIRE actually present both sides of the issue. ... Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox.
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Liberal Media
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I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?
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Marriage
Clinton
Faults
Including
Library
Married
Mean Girls
School
Years
Years Ago
Bill
Bill Clinton
Leaders
Met
Troubles
Wing
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If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.
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Allies
Campaigns
Congress
Judiciary
Likes
Political
Retribution
Term
Since
Seen
Bush
Campaign
Compliant
Embark
Federal
George
George W
George W. Bush
Richard
Likely
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Second
Second Term
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If you're a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and increased government power so dramatically that he claims the right to eavesdrop on your conversations without a warrant.
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Men
Conservative
Pain
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North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from the reflections of a man who was wrong on every major issue for 40 years. Helms' aides say the proceeds from the book will be donated to the non-profit Jesse Helms Center where they apparently have more experience burning than publishing them.
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Reflection
Writing
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In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law.
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Moving
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The Bush Republicans' policies are, the antithesis of patriotic. And so we urge Democrats to reclaim patriotism - to call on all Americans to pull together. And, yes, to sacrifice. Rich people will have to do with fewer tax cuts. Middle class people will need to drive less and switch to more fuel efficient cars . And poor folks - especially young ones - will have to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies and other indicia of social pathology.
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Cutting
Patriotic
Pregnancy
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The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number One newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, also has a right-wing editorial slant (and is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News). The Number One talk radio show is Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity is Number Two, and Glenn Beck is Number Three. When you control all the largest media outlets, it’s time to stop grousing about liberal media bias.
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