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

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" Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing. "

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

" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "

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

" I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" 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. "

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

" I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. "

" 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. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. "

" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

" The United States is a madhouse. "

" 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? "

" Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250. "

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

" Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. "

" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "

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

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