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"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."
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"It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."
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"He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners."
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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
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"What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh."
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"Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."
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"I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon."
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"During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner."
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"Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play."
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"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
Fight
"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
Experience
"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."
People
"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
Father
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
Leadership
"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
People
"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
Leadership
"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
Business
"We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension."
Father
"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
Sex
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