“By the way, I've been called worse on the basketball court. Its not a big deal.”
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Response to remarks by Alaska governor Sarah Palin (4 September)]
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“I've been called worse things by better people.”
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My only response was that I had been called worse things by better people.
Trudeau's account of the comment, in Memoirs (1993) by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, p. 218
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