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"It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."

"Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."

"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."

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."

"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."
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"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."

"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."

"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."

"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."
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