Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
GORE VIDALJews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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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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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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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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