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"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."


"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."


"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority."


"The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush."


"It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%."


"It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers."


"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them."


"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."


"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care."
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