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“When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.”

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I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

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The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

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Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,…

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Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

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In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good…

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There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which…

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The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

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The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

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The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the…

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The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

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The shelf life of a seventh-year State of the Union address is about five minutes. Presidents can propose stuff. They're probably not likely to…

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When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones…

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Experience makes a lesson to us.

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The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I…

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Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

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My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a…

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Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

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Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.

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It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling…

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I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm…

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I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat…

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

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