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"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
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