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I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.

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These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
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Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.
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Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
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If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.
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Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
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The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.
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White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
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Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.
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What's more important than the media, there's this thing called ObamaCare, which was President Obama's signature domestic achievement. It won Republicans the House in 2014 - 2010. It won Republicans the Senate in 2014.
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I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.
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It's been an unusual election [2016].
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People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.
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Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
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Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
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I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.
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I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.
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If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
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[the war in Iraq] could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East
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Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
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