What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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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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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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