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“It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.”

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Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which…

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When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

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I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

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There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made…

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'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

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Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential'…

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If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

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There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten to the…

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'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.

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More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his…

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We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

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I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they…

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for…

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Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every…

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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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“That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.”

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“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature? I cannot recall. And yet at Yan’an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art could not be separated from politics,…

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Presidents are not kings.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

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We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.

Donald Trump, Jr

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I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.

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“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the…

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“If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us…

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“For myself the delay may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of…

George Washington

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