But falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, as Jonathan Swift once said.
Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.
Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.
Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.
Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.
I am sure because I am confident in the idea of the United States of America. I believe that the combination of checks and balances and a free press and our democratically elected representatives will expose charlatans. I believe in the good sense of the American people, and I know in my soul that truth will win out.
I can guarantee you one thing: It will always look as though big things are happening. Maybe they won't be happening, but it will look that way!
I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.
I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.
I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist- if I were doing whatever- I would be an independent.
If there's a world with ghosts, shouldn't we be constantly walking through hundreds of apparitions of just regular old people?
Many troops were far more proficient in PowerPoint than they were with firearms, so...
McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed- not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.
Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
My job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth.
Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
No president likes leaks, but it's worth noting candidate Trump's path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn't have a problem with leaks then. It's not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.
Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.
Politicians lie.
Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
The human soul isn't sold once but rather slowly and methodically and piece by piece.
The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.
There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.
There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.
They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.
We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.
Well, you know what they say: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?
When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem.
You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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