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Anybody who wants to be President, you should right away say, "I don't want to hear that guy anymore."

WOMAN: I'm sorry?

You should say, "I don't want to listen to that person anymore." Anybody who wants to become your leader, you should say, "I don't want to follow." That's like a rule of thumb which almost never fails.

Noam Chomsky

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