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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
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"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."
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"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
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"I'll sign anything except bad legislation."
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"Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about."
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"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
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"I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates."
Character
"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."
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"I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch."
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"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."
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"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
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"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting."
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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."
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"I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out."
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