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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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