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"As long as affluent, educated Republicans are allowed to control wealth in this country, they're willing for the rednecks to pray in the public schools that rich Republicans don't attend, to buy guns at Wal-Marts they don't patronize, to ban safe abortions that are always available to the affluent, and to oppose marriage for gays who don't vote Republican anyway."
-- Former NYT Executive Editor Howell Raines in the July 26 Washington Post.

"But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at that convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity."
-- Columnist Paul Krugman describing the Republican National Convention, September 3.

"You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them?....You seem indifferent to suffering. Have you ever suffered yourself?"
-- Two of Deborah Solomon's questions to William F. Buckley Jr., retiring founder of National Review, July 11.

"Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In Inmates"
-- Headline to a November 8 story from crime reporter Fox Butterfield.