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"It is my personal plan to assassinate 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."

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

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

"Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

"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."

"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."

"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
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"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."
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