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"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
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