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"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."

"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country."

"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."

"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."

"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."

"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."

"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."

"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
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