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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs."

"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."
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"Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents."


"In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever."


"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."


"Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone."


"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."


"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."


"Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive."
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