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• The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
• Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed…
• Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.
• There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws…
• In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile,…
• A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the…
• Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
• Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.
• If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where…
• History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
• I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
• In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

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