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"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party....and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat." 

"Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently....and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand." 

"But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."

He called democracy a system "where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates" no different from each other.

"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."

On America's Middle East wars, he said "I don't see us winning. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims."

He called himself "a born-again atheist. "Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever," he said. "More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world."

He called monotheism "the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race."

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