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“Practical European socialists have embraced the idea that the government has a role in healthcare and in supporting strong transportation systems that do not depend entirely on individual motor vehicles. And it turns out we're all socialists now, and there are very few Americans who understand that.”

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All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

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Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a…

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In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will…

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I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that…

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The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

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I don`t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.…

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If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes…

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National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.

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Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve…

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When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

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