"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."

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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

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"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."

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"Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can."

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"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."

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"I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years."

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"Playing live if the thing I love doing best."

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"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"

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"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks."

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