Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
From Peggy Noonan
You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Let's cause some senators distress.
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