“Everything has been said but not everyone has said it.”

—  Morris Udall

At a committee hearing. Quoted multiple times by Harry Reid, e.g. Congressional Record Vol. 147, No. 83 https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2001/6/14/senate-section/article/S6239-7

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American politician 1922–1998

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