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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

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