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"When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this."
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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."

"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."

"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."

"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early."

"I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty."

"The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from."

"So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove."

"This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism."

"Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together."

"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."

"Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience."

"I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches."

"A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians."
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