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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."
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"My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end."
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"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"
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"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
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"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
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"In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe."
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"The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart."
Family
"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."
Life
"November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays."
Books
"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."
Language
"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
Research
"I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love."
Love
"I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community."
Community
"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
America
"I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop."
Love
"My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding."
Wedding
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