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E. J. Dionne

" Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities. "

E. J. Dionne

Work , Generosity , Hard , Important

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" Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less. "

E. J. Dionne

Work , Giving , Believe , Hard

" Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries. "

E. J. Dionne

Country , Law , Gun

" A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy. "

E. J. Dionne

Democracy , Hate , Long

" Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility. "

E. J. Dionne

Optimism , Real , Political

" The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s. "

E. J. Dionne

War , Battle , Identity

" The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power. "

E. J. Dionne

Responsibility , Jobs , Littles

" Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him. "

E. J. Dionne

Speech , Care

" I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people. "

E. J. Dionne

People , Thinking , needs

" The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal. "

E. J. Dionne

Matter , Secret

" I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Russia's order of friendship as the secretary of state. "

E. J. Dionne

Thinking , Order , Russia

" The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really. "

E. J. Dionne

People , Want , Looks

" Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities. "

E. J. Dionne

Work , Generosity , Hard , Important

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