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 WEINGARTENYou should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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 think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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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 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 was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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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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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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