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American - Writer Born: September 7, 1950

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Birth Image Everyone Radio

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Simple Courage Consistency Part

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

War World Mind Battle

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Equality Friends True Talk

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Politics Strong Sincerity Everything

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Generation Choice Stage Belief

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Love Fog Short Moving

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

Abortion OK Either

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.

Marriage Gun Abortion Place

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

World Think See Miracles

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Politics Place Missing Interesting

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Best You Government Do Your Best

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

You World America Say

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

You Crazy Nothing Your

Let's cause some senators distress.

Some Cause Distress Senators

A great speech is literature.

Great Literature Speech

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Great Magic Speech Without

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Love Disappointment Fall Help

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Politics Election Moving Nothing

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

God You Mind I Can

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

Work Respect You Balance

Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'

Future Road Never Country

Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.

History Long Way Expectation

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

History Great Political Tell

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Political Nothing Your Wrong

You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.

Respect You People Better

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