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One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.
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There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
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A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.
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One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.
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When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.
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The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
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You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
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When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.
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Using the term 'locker room talk' blurs the line between what is criminal and what is simply oafish. That's not a line anyone should want blurred.
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Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.
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Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?
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If people feel like the boss doesn't respect them, they don't stretch for the boss.
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In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.
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There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.
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Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.
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I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.
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Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
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There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'
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What is the appetite for truth in the Trump White House? That's not a question about the untrue things the president says. It's about the level of truth the system expects.
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The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.
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The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.
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It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
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The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person's humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.
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A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
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In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaigns were totally frivolous. I mean, people were drinking hard cider all day. They were big parades; no one was debating the issues.
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Things were so unpredictable in Comey's first meeting with President-elect Trump, the former FBI director immediately took notes in his car after the interaction.
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One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
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There's kind of a Tom Harkin aspect to Bernie Sanders, even though Harkin is supporting Secretary Clinton.
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President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.
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Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.
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Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
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One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.
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I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.
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Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
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That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?
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My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.
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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
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The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.
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Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
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Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.
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