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The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

If it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

America has its faults as a society, as we have ours.

Too often the sensible people aren't radical, and the radical people aren't sensible.

We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.

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