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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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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
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
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism

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