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This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.