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" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

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" I'm always an optimist! "

" Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party? "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

" The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. "

" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

" I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted. "

" Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" We're not a democracy. "

" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "

" In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. "

" 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. "

" What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. "

" From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion. "

" I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. "

" The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. "

" Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. "

" 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. "

" Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. "