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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. "

" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "

" I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. "

" 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. "

" What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. "

" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "

" Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. "

" In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. "

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

" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

" 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. "

" Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. "

" I am only at home in the present. "

" Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. "

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

" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "