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When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

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Juan Williams
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Juan Antonio Williams
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Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
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I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.
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In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
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Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
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In other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
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In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
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If you think about conservative ideas, conservative principles, the fact that Donald Trump goes back at George W. Bush over weapons of mass destruction or gets into fights with the pope, and there's no outreach in terms of growth of the party. I think lots of people fear for the future of the party.
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Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].
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Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
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My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.
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The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.
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I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.
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I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we feel about each other, our ability to speak as one. And in this case, I think there are lots of Republicans who are worried about, does Donald Trump really represent conservatism?
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The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.
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When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
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I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
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As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.
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In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.
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The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.
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