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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."
"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."
"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."
"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."
"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
"I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well."
"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."
"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
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