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Michael Kinsley

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American political journalist, commentator television host

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Big Babies
  • Old Age
  • Creative Capitalism
  • Please Don't Remain Calm

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.
  • A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.
  • I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
  • Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.
  • Donald Trump is a fascist. ... Not in the sense of an all-purpose bad guy, but in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination of strong government and strong corporations should run the nation and the world. He spent his previous career negotiating with the government on behalf of corporations; now he has switched teams. But it’s the same game.
  • If I’m correct that Trump actually has a governing philosophy, that’s a bad thing, not a good thing. If he actually has principles to guide him through those famous swamps he plans to drain, that’s alarming, not reassuring. Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles. Four or eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Michael
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Detroit
Occupation
writer
Educated at
Harvard College
Religion
atheism
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medical condition
Parkinson's disease
date of birth
1951-03-09
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