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" Does one ever read a politician's books? "

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" The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. "

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" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "

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" In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. "

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

" Friends, there is no Left in American politics. "

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" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "

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