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"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."
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"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
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"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
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"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
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"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
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"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."
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"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
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"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."
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"I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency."
History
"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."
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"And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there."
Politics
"Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money."
Money
"We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers."
Money
"The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform."
Politics
"They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right."
People
"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job."
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"That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified."
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