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"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."
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"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President."

"George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate."

"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."

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"Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1."

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."
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