E. J. Dionne Quotes

#1. I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

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#2. The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

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#3. What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.

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#4. We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

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#5. When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

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#6. The publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .

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#7. The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

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#8. Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

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#9. Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.

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#10. A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

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