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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

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Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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 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 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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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
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 get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality

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