Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
GENE WEINGARTENI 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.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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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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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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I think politics is everything.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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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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On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
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