“Never, ever retract. The smell of weakness is like blood to sharks.”

—  Pamela Geller

"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h20m41s, Sugar Land, Texas

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