Norman Ornstein Quotes
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Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.
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What they've done, at least, is to give themselves a little breathing room from what was going to be a really ugly confrontation, and one that was a complete lose-lose for Republicans, no matter what.
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There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence
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Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
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The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces.
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Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.
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Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.
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I think it's clear we're in damage control now.