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"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration."
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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods."


"There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions."


"Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation."


"The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference."


"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together."


"Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world."


"Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy."


"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."


"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."
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