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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.

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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race

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