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"Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for.Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?"

"I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes."

"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy-then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."

"When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act."

"What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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