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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand

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