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" I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. "

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" I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly. "

" I'm of Arab background. "

" It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business. "

" 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. "

" President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand. "

" I'm covering the worst president in American history. "

" I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. "

" In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president. "

" Every President hates the Press. "

" I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist. "

" Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. "

" I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?' "

" I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day. "

" All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. "

" You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. "

" We won't really know what will happen until it happens. "

" I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest. "

" I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness. "

" It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. "

" Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans. "

" I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations. "

" I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. "

" We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous. "

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" Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. "

" Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. "