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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.

Gore Vidal

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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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
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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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
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 only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See

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