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" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

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" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" 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. "

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

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

" Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. "

" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

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

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

" I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. "

" My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons. "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" Corporations must pay tax. "

" The unfed mind devours itself. "

" 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. "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

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

" To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

" 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. "

" Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels. "