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    Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.

    Women | Early | Happens


    You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

    Car | Police | Data


    I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

    Speech | Personally | Wrote


    I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

    White | House | Full


    I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

    Voting | Father | Vote


    I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

    Parents | Gone | Barbara


    I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

    Dinner | Clear | Inevitable


    I am post-Catholic.


    I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

    Political | Thinker | Hack


    I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

    Budgets | Balanced | Ought


    Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.

    Night | Saying | Fiction


    Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.

    Cancer | Republican | Survive


    'Catch-22''s admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

    Boundaries | Cross | Admirers


    As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.

    Church | Divorce | Liberal


    A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

    Bottle | Cork | Liquid


    I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

    Hope | Forgive | Deathbed


    With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

    Location | Public | Acoustics


    I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

    Wish | Aaron | Certainly


    I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

    Life | Great | Blessings


    George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

    War | Hero | Blue


       

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