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"So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote."
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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."
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"Women and children make you weak, get rid of them when you are in war."
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"A war between Europeans is a civil war."
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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."
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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
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"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."
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"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."
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"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."
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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."
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"Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter."
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"What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs."
Government


"It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it."
War


"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"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


"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."
Time


"So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote."
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"The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform."
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