I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I’m writing the next Killing book now and I have to just make every chapter compelling, so I can’t get too far ahead of it. I just stay in the present and then go over what I have to do.
BILL O'REILLYI just think Barack [Obama], he doesn’t dig being asked at all. He’s got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.
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Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don’t. Robust debate is good.
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For some reason, President Obama is being heckled about “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which may be revoked. The president wants gays to be allowed to serve openly in the military.
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It’s very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.
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Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy… It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There’s nothing anyone can do about it.
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Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
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I support civil unions, I always have. All right, the gay marriage thing, I don’t feel that strongly about it one way or the other.
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I’m not going to change. Why would I change? I don’t tweet like Donald Trump. I’m not on Facebook. I should amend that. I don’t attack people using tweets, and I don’t do the Facebook and I’m not going to – that’s not my job.
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I’m just a loud Irish guy.
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One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
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Money has not changed me. I am living proof. I’m worse than I was, all right, when I was poor. I don’t care about money. Money – you can’t buy me. And I don’t care about it.
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My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.
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At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.
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You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor.
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I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.
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My job is to watch the powerful. It’s a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don’t hurt the folks.
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