Joshua Micah Marshall Quotes

Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

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• Players
• Politicians
• Communications

To the president the Democrats should be saying, Double or Nothing is Not a Foreign Policy.

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• President
• Saying
• Policy

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up."

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• Crime
• Washington
• Cover

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

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• News
• Factual
• Reporting

Primitive animals will sometimes keep chattering or twitching their muscles even after their heads have been cut off. And that's probably the best analogy today to the president's continuing enunciation of his policies.

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• President
• Animals
• Policies

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

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• Cycle
• Vicious
• Incompetence

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

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• Power
• Worship
• Washington

The great bulk of the public doesn't believe this president any more when he tries to gin up a phony crisis. They don't believe he'd have much of an idea of how to deal with a real one. Enough of the lies. Enough of the incompetence and failure.

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• Believe
• President
• Crisis

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

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• Relationship
• Lawmakers
• Lobbyist

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

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• Work
• Journalists
• Medium