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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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 behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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