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"We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals -- and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship."
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quoted in John Aloysius Farrell, "Rancor becomes top D.C. export: GOP leads charge in ideological war," Denver Post, May 26, 2003

 

Grover Norquist

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