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“Yet another reason to be angry at President Trump: He is forcing me - and every other American who is not a racist - to defend the most left-wing members of Congress.”
“Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.”
“I used to be one of those people who read thrillers on vacation, but for some reason most thrillers no longer thrill me. Maybe because these days reality is far more unbelievable than any fiction?”
“Republicans used to bash President Barack Obama for alienating American allies, but Trump is turning off our partners like no one ever has.”
“People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?”
“I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That is discomfiting for me, and a tragedy for America.”
“Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.”
“Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.”
“At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.”
“Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.”
“Trump doesn't need his own agenda if he can terrify independent voters in swing states about what would happen if the Democratic agenda is implemented.”
“My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling.”
“Anyone anywhere - as long as you live in a country that does not censor the Internet - can now read this newspaper. But like diners passing up a healthy salad for an artery-clogging cheeseburger, many information consumers are instead digesting junk news.”
“You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.”
“No President can achieve everything or please everyone.”
“Only 36 percent of Americans could pass a multiple-choice civics test of the kind that is administered to immigrants seeking to become citizens.”
“The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.”
“Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.”
“Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.”
“Everyone from Silesians to Sicilians to Scots seems to want autonomy or independence. The British voted to leave the European Union, and hostility to the superstate is rising across the continent.”