Quote by Jon Meacham
It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. – Jon Meacham

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In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love ones enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all. – Jon Meacham

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Faith
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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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power
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Attacks on a politicians identity – questioning Romneys religion, say, or Obamas birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and cant sell himself. – Jon Meacham

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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The legions of reporters who cover politics dont want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. – Hugh Sidey

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I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do. – Sonny Perdue

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Im not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics. – John Key

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies. – Aristophanes

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Im at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live. – Sean Hannity

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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. – Arnold H. Glasow

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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