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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2009-01-28
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Quotes-start.png "At first glance, this seems like a pretty good deal. After all, the city's budget deficit, pre-bailout, is expected to hit $11.3 billion over the next 2½ years; Albany is looking at a $15.8 billion hole over the next 15 months. But then, where's the bailout money going to come from? New Yorkers themselves, ultimately: The city and state send far more money to Washington than they get back. Taken that way, the bailout doesn't seem like such a bargain. " Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Sally Pipes
Source New York Post
Date 2009-09-30
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Quotes-start.png "During the campaign, Obama pledged not to force everyone to buy insurance, and promised $2,500 per family in savings from reform. Now he offers generalized support for a bill that is set to include a global mandate, fines on the middle class of up to $1,900 and huge tax hikes." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Sally Pipes
Source New York Post
Date 2009-07-20
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Quotes-start.png "The only meaningful spending reductions in Democratic plans come from paper-based reductions in Medicare and Medicaid. Pure smoke and mirrors. The likelihood of these programs actually getting fewer dollars over the next decade is slim, as cuts to doctors and providers will translate into cuts in care to seniors who will howl. Deficits will grow larger." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Michelle Malkin
Source New York Post
Date 2011-03-25
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Quotes-start.png Weiner argues that the waiver process dispels "this notion that the government is shoving the bill down people's throats." But only the politically connected, deep-pocketed, lawyered-up and Beltway-savvy can apply. And the White House refuses to shed more light on its decision-making process. Obama's selective favor waivers simply underscore the notion that unaccountable regulatory bureaucrats are presiding over government by the cronies, for the cronies and of the cronies. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board
Source New Hampshire Union Leader
Date 2006-09-19
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Quotes-start.png "We agree with Sen. McCain that aggressive interrogation techniques tend to be unproductive and ought not be used. We also agree with him that in extraordinary circumstances, aggressive techniques should be an option. We disagree that Congress ought to outlaw these techniques for the primary goal of enhancing America's reputation." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2007-05-06
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Quotes-start.png "Yet the real offense here is the provision's underlying assumption - that ads that seek to change voter behavior right before an election are somehow unclean. After all, aren't campaigns all about changing voter behavior? Sadly, a narrow majority of Supreme Court justices missed that point back in 2003, when they affirmed McCain-Feingold's constitutionality." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-09-22
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Quotes-start.png "About the only thing that Senators John Warner, John McCain and Lindsey Graham had to show for their defiance was Mr. Bush’s agreement to drop his insistence on allowing prosecutors of suspected terrorists to introduce classified evidence kept secret from the defendant." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-09-10
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Quotes-start.png "The ban on liquids surely makes sense given the lack of a reliable, efficient way to detect liquid explosives on the passenger screening line. But the other fine distinctions in this directive make us think the best approach would be a ban on virtually all carry-on items, or at least a limit of one small personal bag per passenger to tote travel documents, keys, vital medications, reading materials and any other minimal items that are allowed." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ryan Sager
Source New York Post
Date 2007-01-03
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Quotes-start.png "It seems that, so long as trouble-makers are ready to write up the complaints, the FEC is happy to take any nutball theory for a few spins around the track - no matter how ludicrous the repercussions for free speech in our democracy." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-10-19
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Quotes-start.png "While the Republicans pretend that this bill will make America safer, let’s be clear about its real dangers. It sets up a separate system of justice for any foreigner whom Mr. Bush chooses to designate as an “illegal enemy combatant.” It raises insurmountable obstacles for prisoners to challenge their detentions. It does not require the government to release prisoners who are not being charged, or a prisoner who is exonerated by the tribunals." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Hassan Mneimneh
Source New York Post
Date 2006-11-07
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Quotes-start.png "Against the background of the inability of both Iraqi and American authorities to stop the bloodletting, the five-judge Special Tribunal has affirmed the principle that officials in government are accountable for every life." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-05-16
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Quotes-start.png "The legislation preserves an indefensible program of direct payments amounting to about $5 billion a year that flow in good times and bad. It raises support levels for wheat and soybeans, while adding several new crops to the list in a way that will make it easier for farmers to raid the federal Treasury even when prices go up." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) William Kristol
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-09-21
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Quotes-start.png "There are no provisions for — or even promises of — disclosure, accountability or transparency. Surely Congress can at least ask some hard questions about such an open-ended commitment. And I’ve been shocked by the number of (mostly conservative) experts I’ve spoken with who aren’t at all confident that the Bush administration has even the basics right — or who think that the plan, though it looks simple on paper, will prove to be a nightmare in practice." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2010-03-29
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Quotes-start.png "For the first time, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it receives in tax revenue, to the tune of $29 billion. [...] So is this really the time for the US to be setting out on a trillion-dollar entitlement adventure filled with so many unknowns and untested elements? And, more important, whose ultimate financial impact on the sky-high -- and still soaring -- national debt is open to so much question? You'd think not." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Grace-Marie Turner
Source New York Post
Date 2011-08-31
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Quotes-start.png A new jobs report is due out tomorrow, but yesterday’s preliminary estimates from the payroll company Automatic Data Processing are that the number of new jobs created last month fell far short of what’s needed just to keep up with number of new people entering the workforce. And there’s good reason to believe that the health law is a major contributor to the hiring halt. In a recent US Chamber of Commerce study, 33 percent of business owners cited Obama--Care as either the biggest or second-biggest reason they’re not hiring new workers. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Richard Epstein
Source New York Post
Date 2008-10-21
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Quotes-start.png "The employer groups that I've represented know full well any private firm that succumbs to unionization won't be strong enough to survive adversity or nimble enough to advance. Yet EFCA would enable labor unions to muscle their way into an involuntary partnership with the firm's owners." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ann Althouse
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-08-23
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Quotes-start.png "For those who approve of the outcome , the judge’s opinion is counterproductive. It will be harder to defend upon appeal than a more careful decision. It suggests that there are no good legal arguments against the program, just petulance and outrage and antipathy toward President Bush." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2010-08-03
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Quotes-start.png "Some of the families of the victims of the attacks, who deserve our respect and sympathy, are uneasy about the mosque. But it would be a greater disservice to the memories of their loved ones to give into the very fear that the terrorists wanted to create and, thus, to abandon the principles of freedom and tolerance." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Benny Avni
Source New York Post
Date 2009-01-08
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Quotes-start.png "If Hamas were to emerge from this conflict with enough dignity to declare victory, Egypt would lose almost as much as Israel. This is why Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, initially blamed Hamas for the violence as well as Israel. The Saudis? There's nothing they fear more than another "victory" for the Iranian regime - and Hamas is increasingly seen as a proxy of Iran." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date 2012-10-12
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Quotes-start.png Romney argues that Obamacare is economically inefficient. But where is the efficiency in a system that neglects routine physicals and preventive care, and then pays $550,000 in bills as a result? To me, this is repugnant economically as well as morally. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Rocky Mountain News editorial board
Source Rocky Mountain News
Date 2007-05-13
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Quotes-start.png "Hatred and bigotry are reprehensible. But they aren't crimes in themselves. And the books are now filled with statutes that punish individuals for behavior that injures other people or damages property. Enhancing those penalties because the perpetrator may be a bigot is an affront to our legal traditions of equal protection under the law." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-09-10
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Quotes-start.png "The ban on liquids surely makes sense given the lack of a reliable, efficient way to detect liquid explosives on the passenger screening line. But the other fine distinctions in this directive make us think the best approach would be a ban on virtually all carry-on items, or at least a limit of one small personal bag per passenger to tote travel documents, keys, vital medications, reading materials and any other minimal items that are allowed." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-09-20
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Quotes-start.png "But removing him from office is a decision that belongs to Thailand’s voters, not an ambitious army general." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicole Gelinas
Source New York Post
Date 2010-06-28
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Quotes-start.png "The obvious -- and correct -- way to end Wall Street rescues is to let a failed financial firm go bankrupt. That is, the people who invested in a failed company -- including bondholders, people owed money on derivatives and other lenders -- should take the losses. Instead, Congress would "end" bailouts by directing the feds to rescue the creditors to any failed "too big to fail" financial company. Later, the feds would make the failed firm's competitors pay the cost." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-07-18
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Quotes-start.png "Mr. Bush’s decision to send William Burns (Ms. Rice’s third in command and a well-respected former ambassador to Russia) to join the European Union’s foreign policy chief and other top diplomats in talks with Iran makes any incentives package look more credible. It also shifts the diplomatic pressure back to Tehran. And it will make it harder for Beijing and Moscow to resist imposing a new round of sanctions if Iran remains obstinate." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-07-30
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Quotes-start.png "But this primary is not about Mr. Lieberman’s legislative record. Instead it has become a referendum on his warped version of bipartisanship, in which the never-ending war on terror becomes an excuse for silence and inaction." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2009-07-15
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Quotes-start.png "This bill is clearly not hugely costly. It would expand the government’s role in financing and regulating coverage but would also bolster private coverage. It would increase employer-based coverage, mostly by requiring employers to participate. And it would send more clients to the private insurance industry. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that perhaps 10 million people might enroll in a new public plan, while twice that number might enroll in competing private policies." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-09-07
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Quotes-start.png "Even now, the legislation [Bush] is proposing to handle Guantánamo prisoners would undermine key principles of justice. It would permit the use of evidence obtained through coercion, along with hearsay evidence, and evidence that is kept secret from the accused. The military's top lawyers have all publicly opposed these provisions." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-06-30
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Quotes-start.png "The Supreme Court's decision striking down the military tribunals set up to try the detainees being held in Guantánamo Bay is far more than a narrow ruling on the issue of military courts. It is an important and welcome reaffirmation that even in times of war, the law is what the Constitution, the statute books and the Geneva Conventions say it is -- not what the president wants it to be." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Michael O'Hanlon, Kenneth Pollack
Source The New York Times
Date 2007-07-30
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Quotes-start.png "How much longer should American troops keep fighting and dying to build a new Iraq while Iraqi leaders fail to do their part? And how much longer can we wear down our forces in this mission? These haunting questions underscore the reality that the surge cannot go on forever. But there is enough good happening on the battlefields of Iraq today that Congress should plan on sustaining the effort at least into 2008." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Newsday editorial board
Source Newsday
Date 2017-12-12
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Quotes-start.png And there has to be a way to minimize the ongoing legal challenges and avoid a flip-flopping of rules every time an administration changes. Perhaps repealing the utility designation to allow for cutting-edge development could be paired with a federal law that protects net neutrality more specifically. That could satisfy the concerns of both sides. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Rocky Mountain News editorial board
Source Rocky Mountain News
Date 2009-02-05
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Quotes-start.png "What the Congress is considering doesn't rise to the level of Smoot-Hawley but "Buy American" is protectionism and protectionist measures tend to feed on themselves. If this nation enacts them, our trading partners will likely retaliate and on it will go in a downward spiral." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2010-07-26
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Quotes-start.png "Rauf has said to domestic audiences that money to build the 13-story mosque-cum-community center will be raised from among American Muslims -- though he hasn't said from whom. Yet he recently told an Arabic-language newspaper in Britain that funding would also come from Arab countries. And that's a red flag. As laid out in a 2005 report from Freedom House, financing mosques abroad to spread the radical Wahhabist strain of Islam is one of the main ways Saudi Arabia keeps its own radicals pacified." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date 2010-03-17
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Quotes-start.png "Opponents of health care reform claim that America’s health statistics are poor simply because of America’s racial diversity and large underclass. But there is one group of Americans who do fine in international comparisons — and that’s the 65-plus crowd. They have Medicare. One careful study after another has shown that uninsured people are significantly more likely to die than insured people. That’s because diseases are caught at later stages on uninsured people, and they don’t get treated so well." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-04-11
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Quotes-start.png "The big players [...] need to agree on a list of new sanctions with a lot more bite: a ban on dealings with major Iranian banks; a ban on arms sales; a ban on new investments in Iran. They need to warn, credibly, of even tougher sanctions to come. At the same time, Washington needs to make Iran a serious offer to talk about everything, including security assurances and diplomatic and economic relations if Iran is willing give up its fuel program and cooperate fully with inspectors." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2008-06-27
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Quotes-start.png "It's a welcome decision - if only in its faithfulness to the uniquely American role of a written Constitution in protecting individual liberties." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Joel Hafvenstein
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-09-20
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Quotes-start.png "The Afghan Army and foreign powers must create space in which a professional, accountable police force can take root." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Paul Krugman
Source The New York Times
Date 2009-10-25
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Quotes-start.png "Still, if the Massachusetts experience is any guide, health care reform will have broad public support once it’s in place and the scare stories are proved false. The new health care system will be criticized; people will demand changes and improvements; but only a small minority will want reform reversed." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2007-10-29
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Quotes-start.png "Make no mistake: Even if al Qaeda were driven completely from Iraq, it would remain a potent force elsewhere. But no group could suffer such a defeat without significant consequences for both prestige and recruitment. America's other enemies, meanwhile, would have to think twice about further angering a lethally adaptable adversary. The war in Iraq may be far from won, but there are plenty of good reasons to keep up the fight." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-07-19
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Quotes-start.png "There could hardly have been a better moment for the annual meeting of the Group of 8 to prove its worth. Instead, it showed how pointless and embarrassing these gatherings have become." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Marc Siegal
Source New York Post
Date 2009-07-22
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Quotes-start.png "The AMA, of all organizations, should understand the difference between health insurance and health care -- that is, that having insurance doesn't equal access to care. Just as car insurance won't help you if there are no repair shops around, having Medicaid doesn't mean you can find a doctor to take care of you -- and a recent survey shows that more than half of doctors don't accept Medicaid." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2006-12-08
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Quotes-start.png "On the ISG report, America's squishy-left media has relentlessly been asking the loaded question, "Will Bush listen?" If Bush cares about winning the War on Terror more generally, he won't." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2007-02-22
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Quotes-start.png "The right of prisoners to challenge their confinement — habeas corpus — is enshrined in the Constitution and is central to American liberty. Congress and the Supreme Court should act quickly and forcefully to undo the grievous damage that last fall’s law — and this week’s ruling — have done to this basic freedom." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) James Pinkerton
Source Newsday
Date 2007-06-28
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Quotes-start.png "The nation's founders thought that the people should rule, which is why the Constitution begins with "We the People." Inherent in the idea was that "the people" would be a coherent group, with a common language and culture - the Constitution was written only in English. Mindful of history, the founders thought that each people ought to have their own state." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2020-10-13
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Quotes-start.png In two days of Senate hearings, Amy Coney Barrett has already shown she has the right temperament — and legal chops — to serve on the Supreme Court: She isn’t ruffled or distracted by hostile questions but sticks like glue to the facts and the law. At the same time, Democrats have shown they have no good reason to reject her: Their toughest line of attack has been to suggest she might not vote the way they’d like on an ObamaCare case or if the election comes before the high court. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2014-09-10
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Quotes-start.png Republicans, fearful of deflating their cushion of cash, are trying to portray the amendment as an assault on the Bill of Rights. But writing unlimited checks on behalf of politicians was never part of the American birthright. This measure defines protected “speech” as it had been understood in the First Amendment for 185 years until the Buckley decision: actual words uttered or written by natural persons, not money spent, and certainly not from corporate treasuries. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Michael Oren
Source The New York Times
Date 2010-06-02
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Quotes-start.png "In the recent past, Israeli forces have diverted nine such flotillas, all without incident, and peacefully boarded five of the ships in this week’s convoy. Their cargoes, after proper inspection, were delivered to non-Hamas institutions in Gaza. Only the Marmara, a vessel too large to be neutralized by technical means such as fouling the propeller, violently resisted." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Jeffrey Anderson
Source New York Post
Date 2009-11-20
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Quotes-start.png "In his historic speech to Congress on Sept. 9, President Obama pledged not to support any health bill "if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period." This bill would raise the deficit by 2.86 trillion' dimes -- and yet the president is its most visible and audible supporter." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Michael Goodwin
Source New York Post
Date 2010-06-02
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Quotes-start.png "It was long clear the flotilla had the potential to cause a regional ruckus, but Washington watched it unfold like a spectator. That's strange in and of itself, because the US and Europe supported the blockade to force Hamas from power in Gaza, or force it to recognize Israel and renounce violence. They might have stopped the dangerous flotilla simply by making it clear they would support Israel's right to interdict it." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Bill Hammond
Source New York Daily News
Date 2014-02-04
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Quotes-start.png The ACA does arguably encourage health plans to use limited networks as a cost-cutting strategy — since they’re now competing on price through the exchanges and no longer allowed to use such counterproductive tactics as denying coverage for preexisting conditions. The practice can be a hassle or worse for patients and providers alike. But it’s been around since before Obama was a state senator from Illinois. And stopping it altogether would push America’s highest-in-the-world health costs further into the stratosphere. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ralph Peters
Source New York Post
Date 2006-11-15
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Quotes-start.png "We're blind to the fundamental moral travesty in Iraq (and elsewhere): Spare the killers in the name of human rights, and you deprive the overwhelming majority of the population of their human rights. Instead of being proud of ourselves for our "moral superiority," we should be ashamed to the depths of our souls. We're not really the enemy of the terrorists, militiamen and insurgents. We're their enablers." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2006-11-13
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Quotes-start.png "Democrats have an obligation to demonstrate conclusively to America's enemies that they don't have allies on Capitol Hill. By moving so swiftly to torpedo John Bolton, they've sent precisely the opposite signal." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date 2009-11-28
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Quotes-start.png "A Harvard study, to be published next month in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests that almost 45,000 Americans die prematurely each year as a consequence of not having insurance. John may become one of them. If a senator strolled indifferently by as John retched in pain, we would think that person pitiless. But isn’t it just as monstrous for politicians to avert their eyes, make excuses and deny coverage to innumerable Americans just like John?" Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Thomas Friedman
Source The New York Times
Date 2013-09-03
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Quotes-start.png But the Sunnis are themselves divided between the pro-Western, secular Free Syrian Army, which we’d like to see win, and the pro-Islamist and pro-Al Qaeda jihadist groups, like the Nusra Front, which we’d like to see lose. That’s why I think the best response to the use of poison gas by President Bashar al-Assad is not a cruise missile attack on Assad’s forces, but an increase in the training and arming of the Free Syrian Army — including the antitank and antiaircraft weapons it’s long sought. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) David Brooks
Source The New York Times
Date 2006-07-16
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Quotes-start.png "In all other crises there was a negotiation process, a set of plans and some hope of reconciliation. But this crisis is different. Iran doesn't do road maps. The jihadists who are driving this crisis don't do reconciliation. In other words, this crisis is a return to the elemental conflict between Israel and those who seek to destroy it." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Frederick W. Kagan
Source New York Daily News
Date 2006-12-07
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Quotes-start.png "This is pretty much the same idea that Gen. John Abizaid offered the Senate last month. It is politically palatable because it promises to pull Americans out of combat, does not require any significant increase in the overall American troop presence and puts the burden for success on the Iraqis themselves. But it will almost certainly lead us to disaster." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Reuel Marc Gerecht
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-02-20
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Quotes-start.png "If the White House tried more energetically to find a diplomatic solution to the nuclear threat, if it demonstrated that it had reached out to Iranian “pragmatists” and “moderates,” and that again no one responded, then the military option would likely become convincing to more Americans." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date 2007-07-12
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Quotes-start.png "We simply can’t want to be in Iraq more than the Iraqis want us to be there. That poll of Iraqis, conducted by the BBC and other news organizations, found that only 22 percent of Iraqis support the presence of coalition troops in Iraq, down from 32 percent in 2005." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date 2011-08-31
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Quotes-start.png President Obama took a huge political risk, averted a massacre and helped topple an odious regime. To me, the lesson is not that we should barge into Syria or Yemen — I don’t think we should — but that on rare occasions military force can advance human rights. Libya has so far been a model of such an intervention. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Charles Blow
Source The New York Times
Date 2013-11-22
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Quotes-start.png Fixing our health care system is not only right from a budget and policy perspective; it’s morally right. No one should be turned down for health coverage because of pre-existing conditions. No one should have to live in fear of going broke from getting sick. No one should have to use emergency rooms as his or her only option. As Martin Luther King Jr. once put it, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ralph Peters
Source New York Post
Date 2006-07-28
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Quotes-start.png "We helped make this mess. Instead of relentlessly destroying terrorists and insurgents, we tried to wage war gently to please the media. We always let the bad guys off the ropes - and apologized when they showed the press their rope burns. We passed up repeated chances to kill Moqtada al-Sadr and break his Mahdi Army militia. We did what was easiest in the short term, not what was essential for the long term." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board
Source New Hampshire Union Leader
Date 2009-01-30
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Quotes-start.png "The Wall Street Journal calculated that only 12 percent of the bill's provisions can accurately be called stimulative. The rest is simply being thrown at favored constituencies by Congress. The bill even includes a provision forbidding the use of foreign steel in the construction projects it funds. Does no one in Congress remember Smoot-Hawley?" Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ralph Peters
Source New York Post
Date 2007-05-11
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Quotes-start.png "The standard response from the campus commandos is that, if we descend to the level of our enemy's behavior, we'll become as bad as them. That's crap. In World War II, we didn't exactly coddle the residents of Hamburg and Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima. American soldiers can do what must be done without losing their virtues as citizens (most critics don't even know any soldiers personally). " Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2008-11-19
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Quotes-start.png "Lavish contracts granted to the United Auto Workers, for instance, put GM on the hook for more than $70 an hour per worker. And the companies face unsustainable obligations to vendors, bondholders, dealers, governments and (especially) retirees... plus another 8,000 employees who get paid not to work. A free-cash bailout does nothing to deal with these issues - meaning the car-makers are certain to come crawling back to the public trough as soon as the $25 billion runs out." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) David Brooks
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-11-14
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Quotes-start.png "Granting immortality to Detroit’s Big Three does not enhance creative destruction. It retards it. It crosses a line, a bright line. It is not about saving a system; there will still be cars made and sold in America. It is about saving politically powerful corporations. A Detroit bailout would set a precedent for every single politically connected corporation in America." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Dick Morris, Eileen McGann
Source New York Post
Date 2006-11-29
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Quotes-start.png "Of course, Baker may seek and Iran may offer public assurances that it won't develop nuclear weapons - the same worthless assurances it now passes out to the entire world. What will have changed is that America and Britain will be so engaged with Iran that they can't and won't bomb or even impose tough sanctions. In short, we can only get Iran's help on Iraq if we let Tehran get the bomb." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Patrick Michaels
Source New York Post
Date 2010-06-21
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Quotes-start.png "In eight years, China's annual totals will be equal to what they emit now plus everything we emit. So if we stopped emitting completely, China completely counters our effort. Add to that a simple fact which no cap-and-trade bill admits: That legislation would push even more of our industry into migrating to China, India and other nations that have no intention of reducing emissions by making energy more expensive." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2010-06-17
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Quotes-start.png "His own Treasury Department -- in a private analysis last fall that was made public only thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request -- concluded that cap-and-trade would cost US taxpayers at least $200 billion a year. That would cost the average household an extra $1,761 a year -- equivalent to a 15 percent hike in personal income taxes. And that's just for starters." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2010-08-30
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Quotes-start.png "Meanwhile, despite assurances that the stimulus would be "timely, targeted and temporary," Americans will be paying for some of it well into 2019. Even with that vast, taxpayer-funded infusion, the economy remains stagnant, with unemployment pushing hard against 10 percent. As Bush adviser Lawrence Lindsey wrote, "the actual performance of the economy is almost exactly what [Obama White House advisers] said would happen if we had done nothing."" Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Jacob Sullum
Source New York Post
Date 2007-04-29
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Quotes-start.png "Such meddling is unconstitutional as well as unwise. The constitutional pretext for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, as with so much else that Congress does, is the authority to regulate interstate commerce. But if an abortion qualifies as interstate commerce, it's hard to see how anything is beyond the federal government's purview." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-10-23
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Quotes-start.png "Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working Americans, who have seen their standard of living fall and their children’s options narrow, will benefit. Mr. Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation, restore a climate in which worker sare able to organize unions if they wish and expand educational opportunities." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2012-10-27
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Quotes-start.png In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama’s many important achievements, including carrying out the economic stimulus, saving the auto industry, improving fuel efficiency standards, and making two very fine Supreme Court appointments. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Newsday editorial board
Source Newsday
Date 2008-11-02
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Quotes-start.png "Obama has railed eloquently against the politics of fear and ideological combat, and promoted inclusiveness and cooperation. He has a strong grasp of the nation's economic problems, a more urgent commitment to the green energy revolution and a better plan for expanding access to health care. On issues such as Iraq, taxes and trade, he should practice the bipartisanship he promises, but has yet to demonstrate, by remaining open to alternative views. Still, on balance, Obama offers the better way forward." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2008-03-02
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Quotes-start.png "History will record a number of military mistakes made in the Iraq war - and will surely note that al Qaeda's decision to engage the US-led coalition there represented a major strategic blunder. Al Qaeda certainly didn't have to do that - but it did anyway, and is paying a horrific price because of it. As Gen. Ricardo Sanchez has noted, Iraq "is exactly where we want to fight [al Qaeda]," because "this will prevent the American people from having to go through their attacks back in the United States."" Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Mark Davis
Source The Dallas Morning News
Date 2010-03-22
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Quotes-start.png "Someone please show me where the Constitution gives Congress the authority to even address health care issues, much less embark on socialist adventures of this scope. Don’t even try to trot out the old, failed “commerce clause” argument, which says only that Congress may “regulate” already existing commerce of certain types, a far cry from mandating commerce that the public does not wish to engage in." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-02-10
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Quotes-start.png "Congress was certainly not informed, and if Mr. Ashcroft or later Alberto Gonzales certified anything under oath, it’s a mystery to whom and when. The eavesdropping went on for four years and would probably still be going on if The Times had not revealed it. So what were the telecommunications companies told? Since the administration is not going to investigate this either, civil actions are the only alternative." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Jonathan Alter
Source Newsweek
Date 2007-10-15
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Quotes-start.png "As the antiapartheid movement found, divestment helps put more starch in government sanctions. If the 400 or so European and Asian companies doing business in Iran were forced by global investors to withdraw, they would be upset about it, but less motivated to weaken sanctions imposed by their own countries. Isolation and the threat of economic collapse wouldn't necessarily drive the regime from power, as Gaffney thinks, but it could strengthen the opposition in ways that angry rhetoric from Washington won't." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Jonathan Gurwitz
Source San Antonio Express-News
Date 2010-11-27
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Quotes-start.png "As a strategy, it's absurd, allowing al-Qaida to fashion new kinds of bombs for a few hundred dollars that will provoke spasms of security responses costing airlines and taxpayers billions of dollars. For the government, it seemingly presents a no-win situation. Respond, and stand accused of wasting money on intrusive measures. Do nothing, and bear the blame when the next terrorist attack succeeds. There's a better way. Instead of only looking for weapons and bombs, our security screening process should also be looking for the people who are likely to carry them." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Kris Kobach
Source New York Post
Date 2010-07-12
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Quotes-start.png "Because other kinds of pre-emption don't apply, the department can only win if it can show a conflict with federal law. But there is no federal statute that Arizona's law conflicts with. The department's legal filings don't offer any answer to this fundamental problem. The opinions of the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits of the US Court of Appeals (which are all of the circuits that have addressed the issue) also support the authority of Arizona to enact its law." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Emilie Lamb
Source New York Post
Date 2014-02-03
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Quotes-start.png My new plan costs me $373 a month, even after a small subsidy. By comparison, my old plan only cost me $57 a month. And I now pay 25 percent co-insurance on all doctor visits until I reach my out-of-pocket maximum of $1,500. This is much higher than under CoverTN. All told, I’m likely going to pay more than $6,000 more each year for my medical care. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2007-01-28
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Quotes-start.png "But Petraeus says the troop surge is necessary to conduct the mission assigned him by the president - and, we say again, implicitly ratified by the Senate when it confirmed the officer's assignment. How can anyone suggest that trying to deny the field commander the resources he says he needs - or seeking to undermine popular support for that mission - is anything other than a prescription for defeat? " Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Paul Krugman
Source The New York Times
Date 2009-06-28
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Quotes-start.png "As a recent authoritative U.S. government report points out, by the end of this century New Hampshire may well have the climate of North Carolina today, Illinois may have the climate of East Texas, and across the country extreme, deadly heat waves — the kind that traditionally occur only once in a generation — may become annual or biannual events. In other words, we’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act?" Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date 2008-04-24
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Quotes-start.png "One of President Bush’s most costly actions was his flat rejection of the Kyoto climate treaty; it symbolized a my-way-or-the-highway approach that bolstered anti-Americanism around the world. If the Colombia free-trade pact is rejected and the U.S. backs away from its commitment to expanding trade, that may be the Democrats’ equivalent of Kyoto, signaling a retreat from internationalism. It would be seen as the United States thumbing its nose at the world." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Nigel Farage
Source Newsweek
Date 2021-08-17
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Quotes-start.png A highly decorated British soldier named James Glancy returned to Afghanistan in February. He was helped on that trip by four Afghan interpreters. Yesterday he announced that all four were murdered last Thursday outside their homes in Kandahar. The dark days of Afghanistan are back and Biden has blood on his hands. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Robby Soave
Source The New York Times
Date 2021-09-10
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Quotes-start.png Mr. Biden is presiding over a vast expansion of federal authority, one that Democrats will certainly come to regret the next time a Republican takes power. Moreover, the mechanism of enforcement — a presidential decree smuggled into law by the Department of Labor and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration — is fundamentally undemocratic. Congress is supposed to make new laws, not an unaccountable bureaucratic agency. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2012-04-15
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Quotes-start.png Are there any remaining doubts that ObamaCare — should it survive the US Supreme Court’s constitutional scrutiny — would create a crushingly costly federal bureaucracy? Well, consider that the White House is quietly diverting $500 million to the Internal Revenue Service to implement the new law. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2008-11-26
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Quotes-start.png "Honda, Nissan and Toyota all have been enjoying pre-tax operating profits upward of $1,500 per vehicle; Detroit loses money on each car and truck. The charts also show why: labor costs. Thanks to union contracts, the Big Three face hourly labor costs as much as 75 percent higher than at Japanese companies - and three times as much as in the overall private sector. If Congress buys into a bailout, it'll amount to a giant subsidy for inefficiency. " Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) David Rittgers
Source New York Post
Date 2010-11-17
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Quotes-start.png "Despite what their proponents would have us believe, body scanners are not some magical tool to find all weapons and explosives that can be hidden on the human body. Yes, the scanners work against high-density objects such as guns and knives -- but so do traditional magnetometers. And the scanners fare poorly against low-density materials such as thin plastics, gels and liquids. Care to guess what Abdulmutallab's bomb was made of? The Government Accountability Office reported in March that it's not clear that a scanner would've detected that device." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2006-10-19
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Quotes-start.png "A seat on the Security Council would give Chavez an international platform to spew his anti-American rhetoric - much as he used his address to the General Assembly last month to attack President Bush. Thanks to Bolton, that likely won't happen. This reminds us that the Senate still needs to confirm the ambassador - and it needs to do so by the end of the year." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) New York Post editorial board
Source New York Post
Date 2006-12-05
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Quotes-start.png "Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), a likely '08 presidential candidate, called on the White House to "put forward an individual who believes in diplomacy." But diplomacy as practiced at Turtle Bay is typically just a cover for an essentially anti-American, anti-Western agenda. John Bolton understood that. And tried to do something about it." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ian Hurd
Source The New York Times
Date 2013-08-27
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Quotes-start.png There is no doubt that Mr. Assad’s government has violated humanitarian principles throughout the two-year-old war, including the prohibition on the indiscriminate killing of civilians, even in non-international conflicts, set out in 1949 in the Geneva Conventions. But the conventions also don’t mean much unless the Security Council agrees to act. It is an indictment of the current state of international law that there is no universally recognized basis to intervene. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Thomas Friedman
Source The New York Times
Date 2010-08-03
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Quotes-start.png "You can study Islam at virtually any American university, but you can’t even build a one-room church in Saudi Arabia. That resistance to diversity, though, is not something we want to emulate, which is why I’m glad the mosque was approved on Tuesday. Countries that choke themselves off from exposure to different cultures, faiths and ideas will never invent the next Google or a cancer cure, let alone export a musical or body of literature that would bring enjoyment to children everywhere." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Paul Krugman
Source The New York Times
Date 2012-03-30
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Quotes-start.png Justice Antonin Scalia compared the purchase of health insurance to the purchase of broccoli, with the implication that if the government can compel you to do the former, it can also compel you to do the latter. That comparison horrified health care experts all across America because health insurance is nothing like broccoli. Why? When people choose not to buy broccoli, they don’t make broccoli unavailable to those who want it. But when people don’t buy health insurance until they get sick — which is what happens in the absence of a mandate — the resulting worsening of the risk pool makes insurance more expensive, and often unaffordable, for those who remain. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) James B. Stewart
Source The New York Times
Date 2012-03-30
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Quotes-start.png Of course, the Supreme Court could reverse decades of its own jurisprudence and fundamentally redefine and limit the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. But conservatives should be careful what they wish for. The commerce clause was a response to the chaotic and often conflicting state regulations that hobbled the nation under the Articles of Confederation. Its interpretation over the ensuing two centuries has wisely reflected the growing nationalization and globalization of economic activity and, by doing so, has promoted economic growth. Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Ralph Peters
Source New York Post
Date 2008-02-19
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Quotes-start.png "At times - as in the case of Pakistan - there's an immediate strategic necessity to support a cobbled-together state. But there's no excuse for our recent history of reflexively defending every bad border out of diplomatic inertia. How long will the United States - the greatest force for freedom in history - continue bleeding to preserve the most-destructive legacies of Europe's empires?" Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) Fareed Zakaria
Source Newsweek
Date 2010-08-06
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Quotes-start.png "The man spearheading the center, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is a moderate Muslim clergyman. He has said one or two things about American foreign policy that strike me as overly critical —but it’s stuff you could read on The Huffington Post any day. On Islam, his main subject, Rauf’s views are clear: he routinely denounces all terrorism—as he did again last week, publicly. He speaks of the need for Muslims to live peacefully with all other religions. He emphasizes the commonalities among all faiths. He advocates equal rights for women, and argues against laws that in any way punish non-Muslims." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date 2007-02-01
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Quotes-start.png "Mr. Bush has resisted calls to convene a meeting of Iraq’s neighbors to discuss ways to contain the crisis. There is no guarantee that Mr. Ahmadinejad can be persuaded that Iraq’s further implosion is not in Iran’s interest. But others in Tehran may have clearer heads. And any hope of driving a wedge between Iran and Syria will have to start by giving Damascus hope that there is a way in from the cold." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) James Klurfeld
Source Newsday
Date 2008-07-17
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Quotes-start.png "A one-dimensional, militant approach to Iran by the United States has not and will not be productive. Is it possible to convince Tehran to give up its nuclear program? That's uncertain. The overthrow of Hussein in Iraq certainly gave some in Iran incentive for having a deterrent. A more sophisticated approach by Washington, one with carrots and sticks, always made more sense." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The Dallas Morning News editorial board
Source The Dallas Morning News
Date 2008-07-22
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Quotes-start.png "engaging Iran tosses the negotiations ball back into its court and exposes its specious argument that the United States wants war. Direct engagement also sends an important signal to our allies that U.S. policy will be more sophisticated and less unilateral than it has been." Quotes-end.png


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Author(s) The Dallas Morning News editorial board
Source The Dallas Morning News
Date 2007-01-11
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Quotes-start.png "We wish we had confidence that his new strategy could succeed and that he had made these proposals before spasms of sectarian butchery dragged Iraq to the edge of the abyss. Now, Mr. Bush's plan depends entirely on the credibility and capability of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, which has proved weak and more dedicated to protecting Shiite militancy than defending the rule of law." Quotes-end.png


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