“Many of them are so dumb they could throw themselves at the ground and miss.”

—  James Traficant

Denunciation of the press (18 July 2002), quoted in House panel votes to expel Traficant, Inside Politics, CNN.com, July 18, 2002, 2007-01-08 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/18/traficant.ethics/index.html,

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