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“If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.”
“I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.”
“I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.”
“Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.”
“Never leave a crossword unfinished.”
“The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.”
“I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.”
“In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.”
“In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.”
“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
“A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.”
“The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.”
“The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.”
“In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.”
“Fight for what you know to be right. Don't give up.”
“There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.”
“Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.”
“I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.”
“The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.”
“The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.”