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"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism."

"The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair."

"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."

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"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis."

"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."

"All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!"

"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"

"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."
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