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Quotes by Journalist
"We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great."
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"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
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"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
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"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."
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"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
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"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
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"Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy."
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"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"
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"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."
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"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
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"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
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"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
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"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."
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"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
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"Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry."
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"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."
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"The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers."
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"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
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"The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there."
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"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
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"The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans."
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"Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen."
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"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."
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"I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources."
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"It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."
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"There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on."
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"I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask."
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"Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English."
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"Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude."
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"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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"A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives."
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"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
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"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
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"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial."
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"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less."
Fear,
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"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
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"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
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"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."
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"You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
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"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."
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"I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby."
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"I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas."
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"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
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"If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat."
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