"Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility……" — Rick Perlstein
"Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so."
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- Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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