I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
GORE VIDALDoes one ever read a politician’s books?
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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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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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