Richard Cohen Quotes

A presidential candidate needs a slogan.
Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.
As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly.
Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.
Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.
Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What's the purpose?
Fox News has been a force in converting the party of Lincoln into the party of Trump. The network's allegiance to Trump approaches mindless adoration.
George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 wounded, and the Middle East destabilized with Iranian influence enhanced.
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.
Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.
Heroism is a matter of choice.
Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.
Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?
I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.
I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.
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