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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing 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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
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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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
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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Democracy Party Politics Republic
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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