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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
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"Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"

"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."

"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."

"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."
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