If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
GORE VIDALWe are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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