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" In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders. "

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" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. "

" Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. "

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

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

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

" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. "

" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

" We're not a democracy. "

" The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. "

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

" 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. "

" We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" 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 greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. "

" It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. "

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

" 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. "

" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "

" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

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