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.
GENE WEINGARTENWhen my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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 think politics is everything.
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The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
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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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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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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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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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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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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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