“Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.”
About This Quote
Address at Virginia Beach (2000), as quoted in The Washington Post (28 February 2000).
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