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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

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I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

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Please don't kill me!

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Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

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Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

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His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

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I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

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The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

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I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

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A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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