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Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a political columnist for Time magazine and is known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone.

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We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

Attacked, Immediate, Should, Threat, Under, War

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Age, Done, Seemed, Things, Way

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Among, Cynicism, Insight, Mediocre, Passes

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Larger Than Life, Life Is, Mediocrities, Mediocrity, Save, Smaller

We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

Different, Military, Sort, Two, War

The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

Candidate, Charming, Dean, Memories, Party, Presidential

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

20Th, 21St, Journalism, Literary, Practice, Tradition

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Comedy, News, Show, Shows, Stewart

You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

Black, Officers, Police, Think, Thinking

Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. . . . He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.

Cutting, Exist, Fighting, Lip, Taken, Welfare

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys. '

Boys, Journalists, Neoconservative, Powerful, Realism, Two

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Congenitally, Delusional, Dictator, Diplomacy, Indispensability, Work

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

American, Diversity, Dna, Life, Rainbow

I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

Believe, Hate, People, Toward, Trump

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

Become, Facts, Long, Point, Political, Simbowl

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Ineptitude, Political, Rectitude, Sorry

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Arrogance, Compassion, Cynical, Given, Humility

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Believe, School, Inappropriate Behavior, Result, Dropping, Requires

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

Baby, Generation, Marching, Past, Rights, War

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

1961, Address, Addresses, Consciousness, Political, Seemed

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