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"So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it."

"That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes."

"I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman."

"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."

"I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation."
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"The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation."


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"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful."


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