“I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.”

— Paula Poundstone

" Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896560/", Bravo channel, November 7, 2006.

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