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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
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
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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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Children Country Myself Support
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place

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