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• Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
• We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and…
• The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the…
• If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance…
• For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at…
• We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we…
• Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
• There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens…
• In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the…
• The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
• At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
• The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time,…

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