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We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.