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People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.