Envy is the central fact of American life.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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I can understand companionship.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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