Evan Thomas Quotes

#1. Always do what you're afraid to do-Robert F. Kennedy

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#2. As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

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#3. Wars should be over in three days or less ... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

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#4. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

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#5. Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

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#6. With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

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#7. Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

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#8. Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough'.

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#9. American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

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#10. I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world, he's sort of God.

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