Quotes by Richard Cohen - Page 2

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.
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Future
Looks
President
Then
Same
Every
Senator
Himself
Mirror
Mount
Sees
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How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?
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Moron
President
Secretary
Trump
Merely
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Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.
Richard Cohen /
Agree
Fake
Fox News
News
Conservatives
Read
Differ
Watch
Fake News
Fox
Liberals
Msnbc
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Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.
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Models
Role Models
Trump
Men Man Will
Boy
Lots
Failed
Fail
Presidents
Role
Surely
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Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.
Richard Cohen /
Accused
Contrary
Critics
Breathed
Bubble
On The Contrary
Supporters
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The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.
Richard Cohen /
Ultimate
Change Will Never
Afterwards
Change Will America
Attached
Donald
Donald Trump
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Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.
Richard Cohen /
Ballast
Chaos
Collapse
Hollow
Lacking
Presidency
Man Me Will
Contained
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Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.
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Greatness
Marvelous
Shadow
Accompanied
Churchill
Confounded
Wandering
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I have come to the conclusion that Ben Carson is a bit nuts. I say that not because I disagree with him politically, but because he doesn't seem to know what the truth is.
Richard Cohen /
Conclusion
Disagree
Nuts
Ben
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I came of age when jobs were plentiful and college not exorbitantly expensive. I graduated with debt, but it was manageable, and I set off to do something I loved - journalism.
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Expensive
Journalism
Manageable
Plentiful
Graduated
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It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.
Richard Cohen /
Request
Swiss
Authorities
Bust
Detained
Freed
Mouth
Roman
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I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped at a coffee shop to greet the folks and get something to eat.
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Clinton
Coffee
Hampshire
New Hampshire
White House
Greet
Shop
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Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that a woman's body is not her own.
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Insisting
Silent
Republicans
Lowering
Regulations
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As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
Richard Cohen /
Figures
Former
Officers
Papers
Picked
Presidents
Walls
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Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Richard Cohen /
Thanksgiving
Balloons
Friday
Narcissism
Spread
Confronted
Crack
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I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.
Richard Cohen /
Suspicious
Uniform
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Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good and generous. We believe we are a virtuous nation.
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Generous
Staying
Staying Power
Virtuous
Good Power Believe
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Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and he is an amoral man in so many ways. But, in contrast to Obama, his emotions are no mystery.
Richard Cohen /
Contrast
Amoral
Cares
Donald
Donald Trump
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Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.
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Exception
Personification
Talk Radio
Television Shows
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Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything.
Richard Cohen /
Contempt
Face Value
Dumbest
Rush
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My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.
Richard Cohen /
Hunger
Orphanage
Poland
Earned
Elite
Immigrant
Member
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I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.
Richard Cohen /
Political Science
Psychology
Variety
Life Science Time
Id
Secrets
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Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.
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Defeated
Dozen
Germany
Japan
Men And Women
Other Countries
World War Ii
War Men Women
War Women Men
Italy
Life-Threatening
Various Reasons
World War
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Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support for Israel certainly would be. With an indifferent America, Israel would become a lonely, frightening place.
Richard Cohen /
Existential
Frightening
Indifferent
Iran
Lonely
Threat
Insists
Netanyahu
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We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow us around the Internet will someday, with the click of a distant mouse, look like the jackboots of old.
Richard Cohen /
Accounting
Digital
Hackers
Lifting
Someday
Click
Distant
Mouse
Private Lives
Wallet
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The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.
Richard Cohen /
Campaigns
Ignorance
Innocent
Seeking
Apparent
Intellectually
Proves
Scott
Walker
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We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC crowd. That way, Americans can get to know Americans and learn - as previous generations did - that we are all Americans.
Richard Cohen /
Fox News
Generations
Urban
All Americans
Crowd
Fox
Msnbc
Previous
Rural
Throws
Types
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Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.
Richard Cohen /
Camps
Descent
Episodes
Foreigners
Internment
Intolerance
World War Ii
Extreme
War Fear World
Germans
Italians
Periodic
Placed
Refugees
World War
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Let me tell you, seven days without Wolf Blitzer is heaven. A week outside 'The Situation Room' is downright calming. No 'breaking news!' No hype. Blitzer is a first-class journalist, and I mention him only by way of acknowledging his fame.
Richard Cohen /
Calming
Heaven
Hype
Acknowledging
Me Situation Way
Breaking
Downright
Mention
Wolf
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You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, African Americans, former POWs, the media and, to get just a bit more specific, 'The Post.'
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Disabled
Former
Insulted
Admit
African
African Americans
Asians
Endlessly
Muslims
Post
Pows
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It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence.
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Battle
Confederate
Disregard
Whipping
Life History Look
Flag
Occurrence
Southerners
Willful
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Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
Richard Cohen /
Bergman
Bogart
Casablanca
Internal
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I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.
Richard Cohen /
Anger
Agree
Angry
Closure
Empty
Nonsense
Pain
Across
Obama
Course
Word
Michelle
Michelle Obama
Present
Refusing
Seal
Wanting
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Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.
Richard Cohen /
Cop
World War Ii
Increasingly
Maintain
Policeman
World Peace
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When I was a kid, I went door to door in my neighborhood asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then for its Israel forestation program. At the age of 11 or so, I imagined myself a regular Johnny Appleseed, responsible for vast forests.
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Forests
Fund
Neighborhood
Vast
Donations
Johnny
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George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 wounded, and the Middle East destabilized with Iranian influence enhanced.
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Charming
Gracious
Middle East
Wounded
Catastrophic
Enhanced
George W
George W. Bush
Utterly
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Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.
Richard Cohen /
Anguish
Debate
Health Care
Ideology
Medicine
Newborn
Possibility
Abysmal
Health Care Debate
Explain
Republicans
Mention
Ours
Socialized
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Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table.
Richard Cohen /
Bragging
Ignorant
Oxygen
Pages
Selfish
Sleazy
Suffocating
Cruel
Item
Leaked
Mirror
Post
Poster
Shown
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It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.
Richard Cohen /
Accomplished
Death Penalty
Dna
Federal Government
Guilt
Innocence
Worthy
Apply
Chances
Diminished
Substitute
Increasingly
Penalty
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It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan's acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump.
Richard Cohen /
Commonplace
Politician
Reality Tv
Hall
Reagan
Yell
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I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me - I don't think 'The Post' would have hired me if I had lacked a degree - but I probably could have earned about the same if I had stayed in the insurance business, where I worked while going to college at night.
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Earned
Hired
Insurance
Post
Stayed
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The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great Britain, in two world wars, not to mention a common language and, in significant respects, culture. It is based on warmth, emotion, shared values - and, not to be dismissed, a potent domestic lobby.
Richard Cohen /
Britain
Common Language
Forged
Great Britain
Significant
Warmth
Relationship Great World
Dismissed
Domestic
Lobby
Mention
Potent
Respects
Shared
World Wars
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Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What's the purpose?
Richard Cohen /
Advent
Hacked
Riding
Romania
Brakes
Cable
Eminem
Lights
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Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.
Richard Cohen /
Creation
Fox News
Greedy
House
Liars
Lying
News
Paradox
President
Ridicule
Spun
Stupid
Sympathetic
Theatrical
Trump
Unloved
Almost
Believed
Lie
Figure
Fox
Liar
Outright
Swell
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