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If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. ... Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
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Interview on CNN's Crossfire, 2002
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In response to Tucker Carlson's description of a PETA member campaigning directly to his four-year-old son outside a circus
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USA Today, 1991September 3

 

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