The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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