In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALThere’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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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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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Love is not my bag.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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