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5090f1f
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I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
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humor
inspirational
leaders
politics
presidents
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Harry S. Truman |
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0a3377d
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"We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah". But because it advanced our understanding. This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republicans describe, bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why : There is a president Obama that only republicans can see" --
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current-events
politics
presidents
republicans
tea-party
tea-party-movement
washington-dc-politics
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Jon Stewart |
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984c8f8
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During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president--only the second impeachment hearing in American history--you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.
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bill-clinton
carol-blue
chauvinism
corruption
democratic-party-us
elections
history
impeachment
impeachment-of-bill-clinton
lies
misogyny
money
new-democrats
new-hampshire
pathology
politics
presidents
republican-party-us
sexism
trials
united-states
us-presidential-election-1992
us-presidents
us-senate
women
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Christopher Hitchens |
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8da71fc
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There was a touch of prairie about the fellow. --hans vollman Yes. --roger bevins iii Like stepping into a summer barn late at night. --hans vollman Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns. --roger bevins iii Vast. Windswept. New. Sad. --hans vollman Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious. --roger bevins iii Back slightly out. --hans vollman Right boot chafing. --roger bevins iii
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character
lincoln
presidents
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George Saunders |
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027fce6
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Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time--every ten out of ten --he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack's what's behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building.
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greed
kings
presidents
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Charles Frazier |
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721900d
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"If this were a courageous country, it would ask Gloria to lead it since she is sane and funny and beautiful and smart and the National Leaders we've always had are not. When I listen to her talk about women's rights children's rights men's rights I think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't. Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth. John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo. Imagine President Martin Luther King confronting the youthful "Oppie" Oppenheimer. Imagine President Malcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President Stevie Wonder dealing with the "Truly Needy." Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, or Sweet Honey in the Rock dealing with Anything. It is imagining to make us weep with frustration, as we languish under real estate dealers, killers, and bad actors."
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change
leaders
leadership
politics
presidents
united-states
united-states-of-america
us
usa
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Alice Walker |
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2cb402e
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It's an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn't change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn't a day that we don't worry about those men who have survived the White House.
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politics
presidents
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Robert Ludlum |
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e0b3a20
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"Son," my father said of Obama, "you know the country got to be messed up for them folks to give him the job."
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politics
presidents
race
race-relations
racism
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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949a199
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For reasons I find hard to fathom, readers with government [Harvard?] experience follow my argument more easily that do some of those for whom it remains theoretical. (xv)
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government
presidential-power
presidents
trump
trump-resistance-movement
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Richard E. Neustadt |
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ca24abf
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They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores besides Mrs. President every night? Now would they?
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blacks
presidents
washington-dc
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Edward P. Jones |