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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."

"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."

"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with."

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."

"There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet."

"Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it."
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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."

"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."

"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."

"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."

"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."

"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."

"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"

"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
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