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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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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Election Force Yourself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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

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