“Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn't cover it quite as much. People wouldn't know what's going on.”

—  John F. Kerry

On terrorism — Press Availability in Dhaka, Bangladesh http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/08/261339.htm (29 August 2016)

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