America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
GENE WEINGARTENYou know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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I think politics is everything.
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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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