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"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
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"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

"I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself."

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."

"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."

"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."

"We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension."

"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."

"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
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