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Envy is the central fact of American life.

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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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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
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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Invention President Suspend War
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner

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