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"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
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"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."

"The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat."

"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."

"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."
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