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" 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. "

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" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

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

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

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

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

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" Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships. "

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" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

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

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" On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. "

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

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

" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. "

" 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. "

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

" There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. "

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" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

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" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "