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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
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"However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage."

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."

"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."

"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."

"I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters."

"Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating."
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"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."


"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?"


"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."


"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."


"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."


"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."
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