"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.“
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"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."
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"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
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