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"Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?"
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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."


"What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs."


"And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there."


"For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base."


"I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job."


"Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter."


"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative."


"We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers."


"They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right."


"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
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