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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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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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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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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Filling Himself Hope Place
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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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Death Department Nation State
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature

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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