Ben Domenech Quotes:- Ben Domenech (born January 1, 1982) is an American writer, blogger, editor, publisher, and television commentator. He is the co-founder and publisher of The Federalist and host of The Federalist Radio Hour and writes The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He also co-founded the RedState group blog. In the present day, he is a frequent co-host and commentator on Fox News.
Inspirational Ben Domenech Quotes
“Politics is downstream from culture.”
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“Every day, we publish articles at ‘The Federalist’ with which I disagree.”
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“To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.”
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“If your team is good, you watch all the games – but if they’re no fun to watch? You have a plethora of options. Just switch to Netflix.”
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“You shouldn’t have to be a chair at a think tank to speak your mind.”
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“I’ve rooted all my life for a marginal team.”
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“I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don’t make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way.”
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“We all consume Netflix and other streaming services in different ways. Sometimes, it’s a movie you’re really going to focus on; other times, it’s background noise to something else, where you won’t really pay attention.”
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“Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you’re sorry.”
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“I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.”
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50+ Ben Domenech Quotes
“Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that’s why the public largely supports lifting them.”
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“Try to name any meaningful thing Hillary Clinton accomplished in her role as Secretary of State. The small things she did accomplish have almost universally turned out badly.”
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“Ordinary people in such positions – working at firms, companies, or chains – have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.”
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“Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.”
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“I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.”
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“You should never meet your heroes.”
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“We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.”
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“I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.”
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“Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, and so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.”
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40+ Famous Quotes by Ben Domenech
“It’d be nice to say that American media doesn’t hate this country.”
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“While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.”
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“I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.”
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“If you’re a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they’re never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of an unprincipled blowhard who promises he’s got your back on political correctness.”
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“The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.”
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“The ‘freedom agenda’ of George W. Bush’s second inaugural was a noble concept – but in practice, it offered ignoble results.”
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“American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.”
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“A repeated problem with the Obama administration has been the lack of understanding that contracts only matter if they are enforceable – and if there is a party willing to do the enforcement.”
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“Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.”
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“When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, the organized online backlash is now inevitable.”
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Powerful Quotes on Ben Domenech
“It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks – now, you can’t.”
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“There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.”
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“A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that’s harder is probably running a university.”
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“The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.”
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“Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would expose for traffic and commenters who gloried in its actions.”
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“For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from rating downturns of any significance.”
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“Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.”
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Best Ben Domenech Quotes on Success
“Reviewing Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ presents a challenge for those of us tired of a media environment where the dominant voices consistently try to have it both ways.”
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“It’d be nice to claim that the American press while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American – that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.”
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“When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.”
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“What we try to do at ‘The Federalist’ is to provide opinion and analysis that brings in a lot of different perspectives from across the Right. You’ll see, a lot of times, us running an article that argues one side of something and then an article that argues the opposite.”
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“Ever since the 1980s and the Moral Majority, evangelicals have been loyal to the Republican Party, giving their votes in return for promises on abortion, family, and other areas of policy which promised them protection for their churches and their priorities.”
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“Trump represents a vibrant and fed-up mass of people who see the Republican Party as standing for nothing, so they have turned to someone who can beat the party by standing for anything.”
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Top Famous Ben Domenech Quotes
“In 2008, many Democrats and Republicans believed Hillary Clinton to be a responsible public leader – a firm hand on the wheel, experienced in matters of diplomacy, conflict, and national interest. The 3 A.M. phone call was a question mark with Barack Obama, but not for Hillary Clinton.”
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“Our leaders do us no service when they fail to recognize that the threat the so-called Islamic State and its allied terrorists represent is a civilizational, not a geopolitical, conflict and can only be understood through that lens.”
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“The lesson of the Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal failures is simple: You can’t run a presidential campaign from the undercard stage.”
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“The world of campaign consulting is full of hype. It is designed to offer those desperate for an edge on their opponent the promise of a silver bullet and a consultancy willing to go to any lengths – including all those things you’d like to do but can’t – in order to win.”
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“Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.”
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“The radicals who perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo attack were not motivated by Western imperialism but by members of a free society violating Islamic law.”
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“The firing of Kevin Williamson from ‘The Atlantic’ on the day he was set to give an opening Q&A in their offices was sadly unsurprising given the pattern of these types of hires.”
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