We're not a democracy.
From Gore Vidal
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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