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" There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. "

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" We're not a democracy. "

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

" Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing. "

" I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" He who is last had best laugh. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

" That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. "

" To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights. "

" 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. "

" Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. "

" 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. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. "

" If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" 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. "

" Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. "

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

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

" I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. "

" Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. "

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

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

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