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Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were…

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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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