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“It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.”

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Author:Robert Novak

“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”

Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays

“On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.”

“If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.”

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Author:Frances Farenthold

“Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.”

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Book:The works of George Berkeley

Source: The works of George Berkeley

“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.”

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Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

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Book:The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

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Author:George Orwell