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On The Policy Front, I Just Believe That Barack Obama Was Misguided. That He Somehow Sees This Country As Being In Need Of A Drastic Overhaul. What He Tried To Do Actually Hurt The Country Rather Than Helped It And The Best Example Is Obamacare. It's A Good Idea To Insure People Who Can't Or Won't Buy Insurance But You Can't Punish The Working Class To Make It Happen, Which He Did. Now Everybody's Paying Higher Premiums And More Deductibles That's Coming Out Of Working People's Pockets And That's One Of The Reasons That His Legacy Has Been Refuted.

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On The Policy Front,

Bill O'Reilly

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On The Policy Front, I Just Believe That Barack Obama Was Misguided. That He Somehow Sees This Country As Being In Need Of A Drastic Overhaul. What He Tried To Do Actually Hurt The Country Rather Than Helped It And The Best Example Is Obamacare. It's A Good Idea To Insure People Who Can't Or Won't Buy Insurance But You Can't Punish The Working Class To Make It Happen, Which He Did. Now Everybody's Paying Higher Premiums And More Deductibles That's Coming Out Of Working People's Pockets And That's One Of The Reasons That His Legacy Has Been Refuted.

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Hanks' Ideology First Came Into Our Zone Shortly After 9/11, When He Criticized Me For Asking Hollywood Telethon Stars To Become More Aggressive In Getting The Money To 9/11 Families.

I Figure You Give Donald Trump Two Years To See If His Approach Works, The Business Rather Than The Political Approach. You'll See At The End Of Two Years If New Jobs Are Being Created, Money Flow Comes Back From Overseas, All Of That, The Immigration Chaos Subsides. You Got To Give Him Two Years, But I Think I Know What He's Trying To Do And You Know We'll Watch It.

I Was An Advocate Of The Deregulation Movement And I Made - Along With A Lot Of Other Smart People - A Fundamental Mistake. The Financial Industry Undergirded The Entire Economy And If It Is Made Riskier By Deregulation And Collapses In Widespread Bankruptcies As What Happened In 2008, The Entire Economy Freezes Because It Runs On Credit.

You Either Fight Active Evil Or You Accept It. Doing Nothing Is Acceptance. There Is No In-between.

I Like Barack Obama As A Person And I Think He Is A Sincere Man. I Think He And His Wife Conducted Themselves Magnificently In The White House. There's Not A Better Role Model For American Kids To Watch Barack And Michelle Obama, So All Of That Is Off-the-chart Positive.

Millions Of Americans Have Already Convicted Mrs. Clinton On Many, Many Things. They Will Never Vote For Her.

As A Former High School Teacher And A Student In A Class Of 60 Urchins At St. Brigid's Grammar School, I Know That Education Is All About Discipline And Motivation. Disadvantaged Students Need Extra Attention, A Stable School Environment, And Enough Teacher Creativity To Stimulate Their Imaginations. Those Things Are Not Expensive.

In A Country Where People's Attention Span Is Short And They Are Holding The Clicker In Their Hand, And They Got A Hundred Other Options, You Have To Basically Understand What The Audience Is Responding To. If You Don't, You're Going To Fail.

One Of The Downsides Of Being Famous Is That Folks Pay Far More Attention To You Than They Should. American Celebrities Are Constantly Under Surveillance, And Every Word They Say Is Subject To Scrutiny. So, Be Careful What You Wish For If You Desire Fame. No Human Being Should Be A Goldfish.

No Matter How Much Evidence We Uncover About This Case Or Any Others Involving Mr. Clinton, Millions Of Americans Simply Will Not Care - They Will Excuse The Corruption Because They Like Bill Clinton.

When You Call Us, Ladies And Gentlemen, Just So You Know, We Do Have Your Phone Number. And If You Say Anything Untoward, Obscene Or Anything Like That, Fox Security Then Will Contact Your Local Authorities, And You Will Be Held Accountable.

At Times You Have To Fight. No Way Around It. At Some Point, Every One Of Us Is Confronted With Danger Or Injustice. How We Choose To Combat That Challenge Is Often Life-defining. You Can Face Difficulties Head-on, Or Run From Them, Or Ignore Them Until They Consume You. But No One Escapes Conflict. No One.

You Must Know The Difference Between Dissent From The Iraq War And The War On Terror And Undermining It. And Any American That Undermines That War, With Our Soldiers In The Field, Or Undermines The War On Terror, With 3,000 Dead On 9/11, Is A Traitor. Everybody Got It? Dissent, Fine; Undermining, You're A Traitor. Got It? So, All Those Clowns Over At The Liberal Radio Network, We Could Incarcerate Them Immediately. Will You Have That Done, Please? Send Over The Fbi And Just Put Them In Chains, Because They, You Know, They're Undermining Everything And They Don't Care, Couldn't Care Less.

Saddam Hussein... I Believe Is Involved With This World Trade Center And Pentagon Bombing. I Believe That You're Going To Find Out That Money From Iraq Flowed In And Helped This Happen.

In Primetime Cable Television Today, The Anchor Or Anchors, With An "s", Have To Drive The Hour. The Anchor Has To Be Skilled Enough To Take It Over. So If I Find That It's Getting Boring Or I'm Not Getting Information I Want, I'll Take It Over. I'll Do A Soliloquy, I'll Ask An Outrageous Question, I'll Wave My Arms In The Air, I'll Lift It Myself. It's Like A Quarterback That's Back To Pass And Nobody's Open.

The Factor Concept Is Very Simple: Watch All Of Those In Power, Including And Especially The Media, So They Don't Injure Or Exploit The Folks, Everyday Americans. Never Before In The United States Had A Television News Guy Dared To Criticize Other Journalists On A Regular Basis. The Late Peter Jennings, A Friend, Told Me I Was Crazy To Do It. "these People Will Not Allow Anyone To Scrutinize Them," He Said. "they Will Come After You With A Vengeance." And So They Have.

Tom Hanks Has Taken George Clooney's Place As The Big-hitter Driving A Lot Of Liberal Causes.

I Know That Oswald Killed Kennedy. Now, Was He Pushed? Encouraged To Do It By Outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was He Sitting Down With Fidel Castro? No.

Every Book Has Mistakes In Them, Every One. There's Never Been A Book Published Without Mistakes.

My Job Is To Watch The Powerful. It's A Simple Job Description, Watch Powerful People And Make Sure They Don't Hurt The Folks.

America Offers The Most Amount Of People The Best Opportunity To Pursue Happiness On The Planet. That's Why Millions Of Illegal Immigrants Have Poured Into The Country - Most Of Them Poor. They Believe They Have A Shot To Improve Themselves Economically.

I Know The Constitution In Oregon Was Passed In 1859. Free Expression Of Opinion.

We Have A Lot Of Villains In The World, All Right? And The Catholic Doctrine Says Turn The Other Cheek, The Christian Doctrine. But If You Turn The Other Cheek, You Could Be Annihilated. So When Is It Justifiable To Defend Yourself And Take Aggressive Action In That Regard, Like Dropping Drones On People?

This Country Is A Better Place Because Fox News Has Succeeded.

You Know What's Really Frightening? You (jon Stewart) Actually Have An Influence On This Presidential Election. That Is Scary, But It's True. You've Got Stoned Slackers Watching Your Dopey Show Every Night And They Can Vote.

When I Die, I Don't Want My Demise To Be Used As A Political Rally, And That's What Happened Yesterday.

I'm A Sensationalist. I'm A Big Mouth. I Get Attention. In This World You Have To - If You Want A Mass-market Presentation, You Have To Get Attention.

When I Tell Children That They Are Far Too Dependent On Their Gizmos, They Do Not Deny It. But They Really Don't Care. This Is Their Real Life - Texting About Trivial Things; Listening To Numbing Music On Their Private Headphones. The Machines Block Everything Out - You Create Your Own Little Trivial World.

Millions Of American Families Are Dealing With Teenage Pregnancy... It Is True That Some Americans Will Judge Governor Palin And Her Family. There's Nothing Anyone Can Do About It.

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