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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

Bill Ayers

I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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President Self Thinking
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
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Feelings Leaving relief
The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
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Dollar Military Spend Two Years
“I didn’t want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!” And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that’s the world I want to live in, and because it’s the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.
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Dancing Hispanic People Tonight Wanted Woman World
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. …It’s also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
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Half Past World
One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.
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Believe Gone Years
That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.
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Change Hard Social Work
So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.
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Home President
Politicians are conservative by nature.
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Conservative Nature Politician
When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Adjustment Gone Identity Life
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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Find Some Unity
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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Black Movement
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
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Country People War
I don’t think saying “I was wrong here, I was wrong there” absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
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Absolves Heaven Thinking

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

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