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• ‟ I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

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• ‟ Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.

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• ‟ We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.

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• ‟ So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

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• ‟ They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

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• ‟ Washington is filled with people making other people's arguments for money.

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• ‟ Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

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• ‟ The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.

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• ‟ I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

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• ‟ One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.

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• ‟ It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that I worked with - Jon Favreau and David Axelrod and others - really understood that this was something that I felt I held had to do.

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