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The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us.

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I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

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I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.

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Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he's always been, as he says, misunderestimated.

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I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

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The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn't stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population.

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Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

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I only aim at the powerful.

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The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

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I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 30th, 1944

Died: January 31st, 2007

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