The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power. E. J. Dionne More Quotes by E. J. Dionne More Quotes From E. J. Dionne Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy. E. J. Dionne drones people needs We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll. E. J. Dionne recovery economy kind What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects. E. J. Dionne comeback worried long The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal. E. J. Dionne scandal secret matter .. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism . E. J. Dionne favors battle intellectual God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die. E. J. Dionne military war country When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools. E. J. Dionne voters fool republican 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 russia order thinking I think this is a scary thing [hacking] that does have to be taken out of a partisan context. And one of the best pieces of news this morning is a joint statement, Senator [Chuck] Schumer, Senator [Harry] Reid for the Democrats,John McCain and Lindsey Graham from the Republicans, saying we have to get to the bottom of this. E. J. Dionne taken morning thinking The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking. E. J. Dionne hacking committees democratic [ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness to Putin is a very scary thing for the country and the fact that the news was dominated for 33 days I think it was by WikiLeaks stories, that had an impact on states that were decided by a knife-edge. E. J. Dionne knives country thinking The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics. E. J. Dionne putin issues republican On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages. E. J. Dionne party wings thinking You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election. E. J. Dionne hard-times worry thinking What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest. E. J. Dionne example running kids
