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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
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"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."

"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."

"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""

"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."

"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."

"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."

"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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