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Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History You Can't Get Out. You Can Drown. Or You Can Be Pulled Ashore By The Tide. But It Is Awfully Hard To Get Out When You Are In The Middle Of The Stream -- If It Is Intended That You Stay There.

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Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History You Can't Get Out. You Can Drown. Or You Can Be Pulled Ashore By The Tide. But It Is Awfully Hard To Get Out When You Are In The Middle Of The Stream -- If It Is Intended That You Stay There.

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The Important Thing Is That We Maintain Plausible Deniability.

Important Things

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Clarity Of Purpose

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If, When The Chips Are Down, The Worlds Most Powerful Nation, The United States Of America, Acts Like A Pitiful, Helpless Giant, The Forces Of Totalitarianism And Anarchy Will Threaten Free Nations And Free Institutions Throughout The World.

We Seek Friendly Relations With All Nations. Any Nation Can Be Our Friend Without Being Any Other Nation's Enemy.

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God, Of Course, Is The Greatest Philosopher Of All.

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

I Had Never Expected That The China Initiative Would Come To Fruition In The Form Of A Ping-pong Team.

I Want A Goddamn Strong Statement On Marijuana, I Mean One That Just Tears The Ass Out Of Them. You Know, Its A Funny Thing, Every One Of The Bastards That Are Out For Legalizing Marijuana Is Jewish.

I Don't Know A Lot About Politics, But I Know A Lot About Baseball.

I Also Believe That Academic Freedom Should Protect The Right Of A Professor Or Student To Advocate Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Or Any Other Minority Viewpoint - No Matter How Distasteful To The Majority, Provided...

Academic Freedom

I Would Rather Be A One-term President And Do What I Believe Is Right Than To Be A Two-term President At The Cost Of Seeing America Become A Second-race Power And To See This Nation Accept The First Defeat In Its Proud 190-year History.

Violence Or The Threat Of Violence [must] Never Be Permitted To Influence The Actions Or Judgments Of The University Community. Once It Does, The Community, Almost By Definition, Ceases To Be A University. It Is For This Reason That From Time Immemorial Expulsion Has Been The Primary Instrument Of University Discipline.

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In The Television Age, The Key Distinction Is Between The Candidate Who Can Speak Poetry And The One Who Can Only Speak Prose.

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

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The Bastards Have Never Been Bombed Like They're Going To Be Bombed This Time.

Never Let Your Head Hang Down. Never Give Up And Sit Down And Grieve. Find Another Way. And Don't Pray When It Rains If You Don't Pray When The Sun Shines.

The Events That Followed Our Withdrawal From Vietnam, Including The Plight Of The Boat People And The More Than 1 Million Slaughtered By The New Communist Rulers Of Cambodia, Showed That Media Critics Who Said We Were On The Wrong Side Were Mistaken.

What We Have Done With The American Indian Is Its Way As Bad As What We Imposed On The Negroes. We Took A Proud And Independent Race And Virtually Destroyed Them. We Have To Find Ways To Bring Them Back Into Decent Lives In This Country.

Finishing Second In The Olympics Gets You Silver. Finishing Second In Politics Gets You Oblivion.

As Our Cities And Suburbs Relentlessly Expand, Those Priceless Open Spaces Needed For Recreation Areas Accessible To Their People Are Swallowed Up-often Forever. Unless We Preserve These Spaces While They Are Still Available, We Will Have None To Preserve.

Bring Us Together Again.

We Are Not Spending The Federal Government's Money, We Are Spending The Taxpayer's Money, And It Must Be Spent N A Way Which Guarantees His Money's Worth And Yields The Fullest Possible Benefit To The People Being Helped.

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