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Norman Lear

"Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play."

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"During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner."

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

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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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"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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"I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon."

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"What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh."

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"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."

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"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
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"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."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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