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A huge number of Americans sti...

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

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I'd like to see a revival of s...

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

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American laws don't work, but ...

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

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The constitution has broken do...

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

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When you come from a family th...

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

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Most writers are middle-class ...

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

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I came out of Capitol Hill. We...

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

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The British are absolutely hun...

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

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I come from the highest class ...

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

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I have been on the cover of Ti...

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

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I'm in Hollywood right now, su...

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

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I was the first - I was extrem...

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

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If you are at the mercy of wha...

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

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If you're a critic of the rule...

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

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Before the word gay had really...

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

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Obviously I'm in favor of prot...

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

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I deny that there's such a thi...

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

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These are two opposing forces,...

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

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People have forgotten the effe...

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

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Although the notion of one god...

Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

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