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Rafael Palmeiro

"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat."

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"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat."

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"Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win."

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"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."

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"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."

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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

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"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."

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"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

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"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."

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"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."

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"I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game."
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"There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships."
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"You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them."
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"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."
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"Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind."
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"The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this."
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