“Nine-eleven was an act of war. The villains aren’t the terrorists. The villains live in the White House.”

—  Jerrold Nadler

quoted in The New York Times, March 6, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us/politics/06hillary.html?pagewanted=1&hp

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