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" The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. "

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" Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong. "

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

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

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

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" I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't think there are any rude questions. "

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" 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. "

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" I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun? "

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" Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago. "

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

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" Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch. "

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

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" I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family. "

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" I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press. "

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" But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer. "

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" 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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" This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. "

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" To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul. "

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

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" We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. "

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" When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. "

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" We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits. "

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" The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others. "

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" I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. "

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" Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why. "

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