"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.“

-Russell Baker

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"Americans like fat books and thin women."

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"Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy."

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"Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev."

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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

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"You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause."

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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

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"Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have."

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