"It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends."
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"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.“
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"To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"
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"There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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