There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Rich Lowry

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It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

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Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that

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Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.

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From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.

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I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].

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Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.

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[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare. by Rich Lowry

[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.

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A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

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The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.

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Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passiv... by Rich Lowry

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

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The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

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The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

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If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego. by Rich Lowry

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

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Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

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When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

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