The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
GORE VIDALOn 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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I am only at home in the present.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Since 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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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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