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"I have only 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."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
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