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"Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget."

"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."

"Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it."
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"So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before."
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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."


"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."


"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."


"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."


"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."


"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."


"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."
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