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  • A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

    Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin
  • The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

    Taken   Party   Cutting  
    "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
  • I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating the American middle class while inadvertently creating a bourgeoisie in India, China, etc. I do agree that Soros's role is paradoxical, but if all billionaires (or even a few more) were like Soros, the dialectic would give us global social democracy PDQ.

    Creating   Class   Giving  
    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • It’s a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to cause harm, consisting, as it does, of the earnest wish of certain loving couples to join themselves to that very institution and thus to feel themselves, and be accepted as, full members of the American (and human) family.

    Couple   Gay   Supportive  
    "Distraction" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. June 19, 2006.
  • A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • I`m pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

    Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.148, Penguin
  • A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

    Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.56, Penguin
  • Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

    "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.
  • The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

    "Ups and Downs" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2005.
  • Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

    Mark   Written   Ifs  
    Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.18, Penguin
  • Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

  • [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

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