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The bomb exploded the junk in Vladimir's trunk. Y'know, they always said that Communists would get it in the end. (Rachel Maddow)
Republican 'poutrage' over the 'handshake seen round the world. View quote
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Now I'm going to have nightmares about myself. View quote
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In the novel, the memory hole is a slot into which government officials deposit politically inconvenient documents and records to be destroyed." View quote
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd. View quote
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. View quote
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. View quote
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. View quote
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need. View quote
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. View quote
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Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can. (Rachel Maddow)
I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS. View quote
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I would like to be a polyglot. View quote
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. View quote
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable. View quote
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The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. View quote
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts. View quote
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger. View quote
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station. View quote
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress. View quote
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. (Rachel Maddow)
I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out. View quote
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A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. View quote
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When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them. View quote
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. View quote
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