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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."

"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."

"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press."

"Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out."

"The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't."

"It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict."

"It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world."

"When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny."

"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."

"No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show."
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