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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future."
"This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history."
"We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous."
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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
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