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" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

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" 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? "

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate nobody. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

" I can understand companionship. "

" 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. "

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" Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves. "

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

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

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" To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. "

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

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

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