Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.


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I don't think we'll find anything major that we can't fix readily.
JARED HAREN
Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in ...
JARED BROCK
I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside...
JARED LETO
Differences between the Old and New Worlds in domesticated plants,especially in large-seeded cereals...
JARED DIAMOND
Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western so...
JARED DIAMOND
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
JARED DIAMOND
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ...
JARED DIAMOND
If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ...
JARED DIAMOND
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
JARED DIAMOND
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea...
JARED DIAMOND
Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasm...
JARED DIAMOND
With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placin...
JARED DIAMOND
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't ...
JARED DIAMOND
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...
JARED DIAMOND
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by...
JARED DIAMOND
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ...
JARED DIAMOND
If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environ...
JARED DIAMOND
The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication...
JARED DIAMOND
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-h...
JARED DIAMOND
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ...
JARED DIAMOND
Technology has to be invented or adopted.
JARED DIAMOND
Guns, Germs and Steel
JARED DIAMOND
why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
JARED DIAMOND
In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...
JARED DIAMOND
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
JARED DIAMOND
To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...
JARED DIAMOND
I need to find a woman named Monday... Because Mondays always suck
JARED MEADOWS
This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need ...
JARED BERNSTEIN
Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
JARED DIAMOND
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
JARED DIAMOND
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
JARED DIAMOND
Try and fail, but never fail to try!
JARED LETO
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND
We're not exactly the Brady Bunch,
JARED PADALECKI
Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND