"What's a nice guy like you doing in a party like that? … The Democratic party you have fought and bled for is gone." Source: If Not Us, Who?...
Party Change and Political Alienation
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Identity
Stoic Response to History
"to resist the inevitable as stoutly as one can … it may not be inevitable after all—my notion of the future may be mistaken. In the second place,...
Leadership and Conviction
"The struggle for survival must not be led, on behalf of the American society, by some doubt-ridden egghead exquisitely poised between Yea and Nay....
From Stubbornness to Religiosity
"There are certain qualities inherent in the man—in a way, almost the most appealing things about him, since they are the most authentic—which make...
Belief as National Imperative
"The one sin for which nature exacts the supreme penalty of national extinction is a failure on the part of the members of a society to believe [in]...
Conservative in San Francisco
"San Francisco has a dreadful reputation among conservatives, and New Yorkers are forever raising the subject … I just dismiss it. I'm not in the...
Hidden Motives in Arguing
"People often have other reasons for arguing: unacknowledged or even unconscious reasons that have little or nothing to do with “prevailing” or...
Discomfort with Religious Right
"My own guess is that what makes the critics of the religious right obscurely uncomfortable about its views is not that it “tries to impose them on...
Refusing Soviet Travel
"It is a waste of time to squander a lot of heavy logic on situations that are simply not designed to respond to purely logical treatment." Source:...
Deliberate Persona
"Let me assure you, my friend: There is nothing in the slightest accidental about the image I project. It is precisely the image I want to...
Politicians’ Insincerity
"Most politicians … are pretty adept at sensing when to stop riding an issue … When it stops paying dividends, when on straight pleasure-pain...
Intellectual Discomfort and Thinking
"I recently read … a little homily to the effect that, if a person makes us think we're thinking, we love him; but if he makes us think, we hate...