I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTENHillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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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.
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Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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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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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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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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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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I think politics is everything.
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But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
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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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