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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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"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

"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."

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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