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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
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
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion

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