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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
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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Baseball Play Slow Sports
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
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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Children Country Myself Support

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