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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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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
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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