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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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"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."

"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."

"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."

"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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