"The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents."
"In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices."
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Source: CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon, Kyra Phillips, transcripts.cnn.com. July 30, 2008.
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