"I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job."

Time, Quality, People, Job

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"I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job."

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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"And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there."

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"I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job."

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"What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs."

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"Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money."

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"That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified."

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"They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right."

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"Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter."

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"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."

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"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that."

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