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"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest."
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"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
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"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."
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"I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country."
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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"
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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
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"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
Driving
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
Travel
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
Life
"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."
Media
"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
Kids
"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
Habit
"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
Success
"I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in."
Life
"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."
Love
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