"I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer."

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Mark Leibovich

#Mirrors Quotes #Giving Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.”
“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”
“Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.”
“War will cease when men refuse to fight.”
“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”
“All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.”
“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”
“[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.”

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