Kathleen Parker Quotes

#1. But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

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#2. For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed ...

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#3. It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

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#4. People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

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#5. It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

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#6. It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

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#7. Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

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#8. Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

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#9. Obama is a chatterbox who makes Alan Alda look like Genghis Khan.

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#10. To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

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#11. Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

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#12. If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

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#13. Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

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#14. Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society's scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he's right, but so is the proverbial stopped watch.

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#15. Would it be politically incorrect to call a top-ranked female anchor (with a law degree) currently on the cover of Vanity Fair a bimbo? Or would it be rude, ludicrous, wrong and pathetic? Nothing about this is hard.

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#16. I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

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#17. For those of you who skipped their women's studies classes, first-wave feminism got women the vote; second-wave got them employed and divorced; third-wave is busy making them porn stars. More or less.

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