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The United States is a madhouse.

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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World

The United States is a madhouse.

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