Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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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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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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