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Quote of the Day, George W. Bush

“You’re always the former president but I wanted to come here as a laborer,” — former President George W. Bush after helping renovate a healthcare clinic in Zambia. 

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Quote of the Day, Jonah Goldberg

  “The problem for the Democratic Party is that its core philosophy and mechanisms are increasingly ill-suited to our times.”  National Review’s Jonah Goldberg in his recent piece, Are the Dems Doomed? 

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Quotes of the Day, Ross Douthat, Jay Cost

“Between our slowing growth and our unsustainable spending commitments, “the days when lawmakers could give to some Americans without shortchanging others are over; the politics of deciding who loses what, and when and how, is upon us.” In this era, debates will be increasingly zero-sum, bipartisan compromise will be increasingly difficult, and “the rules and […]

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Quote of the Day, John Boehner

  “As long as I’m around here, I’m not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt.” — House Leader John Boehner to President Obama today. Full story here. 

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Quote of the Day, Charles Krauthammer

  “Obama is just the man to fulfill Al Gore’s famous mistranslation of our national motto: Out of one, many.”– Charles Krauthammer.  Great piece in the Washington Post today by Charles Krauthammer. He hits with a broadside in a morning what I’ve been swatting at with a squash racket for weeks — President Obama’s conspicuous decision to […]

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Quote of the Day, Peggy Noonan

  “I listen to him closely and find myself daydreaming: This is the best-tailored president since JFK. His suits, shirts and ties are beautifully cut from fine material. This is an elegant man. But I shouldn’t be thinking about that, I should be thinking about what a powerful case he’s making for his leadership. I’m […]

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Quote of the Day, Bill Maher

  “I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada.” — Bill Maher in an opinion piece in today’s New York Times.  P.S.  Can’t believe I just quoted Bill Maher. 

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Quote of the Day, Hudson Hinkley

“Five-year-olds, are you better off than you were five years ago?” — Hudson Hinkley 02-12 (Please see below.)

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Quote of the Day, George Will

  [Rick Santorum] is an engagingly happy warrior, except when he is not. Then he is an angry prophet of a dystopian future in which, he has warned, people will be ‘holed up in their homes afraid to go outside at night.’ He has the right forebodings but might have the wrong profession. Presidential candidates do […]

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Quote of the Day, George Will

“Time is not Newt Gingrich’s friend because the more time he has the more he talks. And the more he talks the more he says things, as he just here this morning, he said that I would love to be civil, but I’m running against a maniacal liar. Now, that’s pretty strong language. I don’t […]

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