George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them … - Jesse Jackson

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But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

Jesse Jackson

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

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