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" The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. "

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" Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. "

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" By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. "

" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 am only at home in the present. "

" On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. "

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" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

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

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

" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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