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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
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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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore

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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