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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...polling, which I'm sure you never do, but if you ever did - No, actually, on this - I will confess: I don't spend a lot of time looking at my polls. I do look at the polling on health care, partly because I think that there is a terrific case to be made to the American public. But it is - this is complicated, it's difficult. Without giving you a hard time, Karen, because I think you've been terrific in reporting this, the press gets bored with the details easily, and it very easily slips into a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...Unless you confess to a crime or threaten to commit a crime, there is nothing you can say to a cop that makes it legal for him to arrest you. You can tell him he is stupid, you can tell him he is ugly, you can call him racist, you can say anything you might feel like saying about his mother. He has taken an oath to listen to all of that and ignore it. That is the real teachable moment here: cops are paid to be professionals, but even the best of them are human and can make stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Stupidity of the Gates Arrest | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...advise people never to confess to their partner that they've had an affair, even if they're asked point blank. But won't they miss out on that process of forgiveness? There are many people who have no talent for forgiveness. It's as if they're frozen in this betrayal for years and years. If [you plan to stay in the marriage], why would you tell your spouse something that's going to devastate her and make it so much harder to heal? Couples end up talking for hours about every little detail. They want to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Good People Cheat | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has never shied away from talking about his religious faith. So perhaps it should have come as no surprise that he invoked "God's law" throughout his long, rambling press conference on June 24 - after going missing in Buenos Aires for six days - to confess his yearlong extramarital affair with an Argentine woman. But in acknowledging his infidelity, Sanford was actually admitting that he had broken a state law: adultery is still punishable in South Carolina by up to a year in prison and a $500 fine. Fortunately for Sanford, the statute is an unenforced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanford's Sex Scandal: Assessing the Damage | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.' JESSE VENTURA, former Minnesota governor, saying the former Vice President should be prosecuted for approving "torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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