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" 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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" As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use. "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

" 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 can understand companionship. "

" The unfed mind devours itself. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. "

" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

" The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

" I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. "

" 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. "

" Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "

" I am only at home in the present. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

" On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. "