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- We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
- Buck Henry
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
- Berton Averre
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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