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Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.


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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.


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You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
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But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.


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Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.


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