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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."

"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."

"An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper."
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"I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with."

"The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented."

"A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft."

"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."

"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners."

"As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear."

"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution."

"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom."

"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging."
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