Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDALBy the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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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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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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