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“It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.”

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Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.

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John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

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John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling…

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I feel like I'm always learning from people.

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There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to…

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Animals interest me more than anything else.

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“The popular director of OWI was Elmer Davis, an ex-CBS radioman with an admiration for the wire services and Murrow. Working closely with the Librarian of Congress, the poet Archibald MacLeish, who headed the Office of Facts and Figures, Davis believed that truth was the smartest type of propaganda. This was in stark contrast to the Axis nations, which banned…

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“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”

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I think Ronald Reagan is what happened…The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream…It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk…

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Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you…

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When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

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If I had lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and in my first day as president the intelligence community came to me and said, "The Russians influenced the election," I would've never stood for it. Even though it might've advantaged me, I would've said, "We've got to get to the bottom of this." I would've set up…

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