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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"
"Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments."
"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will."
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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."
"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
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