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“There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .”

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“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country struggling to function without all but the most vital federal services. In Meadows’s district, day-care centers that were reliant on federal aid reportedly turned distraught families away, and nearby national parks were closed, bringing the tourist…

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[The Kochs] they hate big government.

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The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,…

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I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've…

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The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only…

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This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes…

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It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and…

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Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

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The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

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Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark,…

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