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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.

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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
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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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation 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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself

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.

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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.

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