I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALSince we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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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 greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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