Does one ever read a politician’s books?
GORE VIDALWhat I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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I am only at home in the present.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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