Quotes by Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

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Inconvenient Truth

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Americans don’t want leadership. They want alchemy.

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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It’s not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

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Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

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He’s nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one’s nastiness does not make one nice.

Doe

Nastiness

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I have a saying: the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, the scandal is what’s legal.

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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Hypocrisy

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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

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In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn’t remember the interview.

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Quotes by Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Americans don’t want leadership. They want alchemy.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It’s not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

He’s nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one’s nastiness does not make one nice.

I have a saying: the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, the scandal is what’s legal.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn’t remember the interview.

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