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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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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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I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.
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I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.
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Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
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Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.
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If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.
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[Donald ] Trump is more important than all of us. He's more important than the media.
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White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
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[the war in Iraq] could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East
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I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.
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I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.
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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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If President [Barack] Obama - President [Donald] Trump shows up with a, you know, cleaver and just says, I can get rid of all these regulations, I can get rid of ObamaCare, no problem at all, then that would be a mistake.
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I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.
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I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.
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If you look at the polls, for all the talk about immigration and even trade, ObamaCare was an extremely important issue for Trump voters in 2016.
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That's always been the case in America there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.
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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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Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.
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