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" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

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" 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.' "

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" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

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

" 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. "

" I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my 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. "

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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. "