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" The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. "

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

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

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

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

" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

" What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. "

" Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly. "

" I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936. "

" 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. "

" In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends. "

" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

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

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

" For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. "

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

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

" Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. "

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

" For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. "

" I'm always an optimist! "

" The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. "

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

" We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" 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. "

" Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves. "

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

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "