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See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

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Newt Gingrich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 17
Former U.S. Representative
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