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I Have This Fear That One Day There's Going To Be A Fire In The Senate And There Are Only Going To Be 57 Senators There And They’ll All Die Because They Won't Have 60 Votes To Allow Themselves To Leave The Building.

The Most Active People In The Country Know Different Things, And Because Each One Tends To Hear Mostly And Deal Mostly With People With Whom They Agree, They Are Reinforced Not Simply In The Conviction That They Are Right, Which Is Totally Appropriate, But That They Are The Majority. So You Have Both Sides, The Left And The Right, Thinking That The Majority Of The Country Is Really With Them.

I Hope We Will Not So Characterize Religious People As Being So Narrow And So Biased Towards People Not Of Their Own Religion That They Cannot Even Work With Them In This Common Cause To Which You Say They Are Committed.

But Here Too It Should Be Noted That The President's Approach Was To First Ask The Repressive And Brutal Taliban To Surrender Osama Bin Laden To Us, And Only After That Government Refused To Do That Did We Invade.

Going Before An Audience Of People Who Expect You To Be Funny Is Tough. Going Before An Audience That Expect You To Be Boring, And Then Being A Little Funny, Is Much Easier. I Prefer Easier.