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"While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful."
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"Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal."
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"Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war."
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"For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world."
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"For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world."
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"I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator."
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"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy."
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"Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing."
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"I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars."
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"Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots."
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"I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U."
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"Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history."
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"I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it."
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"Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company."
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"The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption."
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"I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain."
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"I don't have any shame."
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"Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned."
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"Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history."
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