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“Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.”

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I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and…

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Be kind to an old man.

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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

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It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way.…

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In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

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I think people make way too much of ratings.

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I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness…

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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere…

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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

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The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

Jill Stein

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that,…

Keith Ellison

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MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the…

Philip Treacy

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My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

Bob McDonnell

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I would like to have campaign spending limits.

Mitt Romney

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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the…

Carol Moseley Braun

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We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying…

Hillary Clinton

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I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on…

Sam Abell

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We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and…

Jorge Ramos

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I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I…

Lindsey Wixson

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I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to…

Ken Buck

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When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies…

Patrick Caddell

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