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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.

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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner

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