Richard Cohen Quotes

Richard Cohen

Profession : Journalist

Birth : February 6, 1941

It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.

Richard Cohen

How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?

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Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.

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I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.

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In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.

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Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.

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Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.

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Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.

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To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.

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The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.

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There is only so much chaos a nation can stand.

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Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.

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Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.

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We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC crowd. That way, Americans can get to know Americans and learn - as previous generations did - that we are all Americans.

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Let me tell you, seven days without Wolf Blitzer is heaven. A week outside 'The Situation Room' is downright calming. No 'breaking news!' No hype. Blitzer is a first-class journalist, and I mention him only by way of acknowledging his fame.

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There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

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We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow us around the Internet will someday, with the click of a distant mouse, look like the jackboots of old.

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It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

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Fox News has been a force in converting the party of Lincoln into the party of Trump. The network's allegiance to Trump approaches mindless adoration.

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George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 wounded, and the Middle East destabilized with Iranian influence enhanced.

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