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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon."
"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."
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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
"We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed."
"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."
"We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous."
"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future."
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