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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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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Money Talk Tax Time
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
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
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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