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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jun 29, 1993

I encourage the broadcast industry, the creators and producers, as well as the advertisers who support network programming, to take full responsibility in limiting the amount of televised violence.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jun 29, 1993

The announcement of voluntary violence warnings is an important, commendable first step in dealing with this crucial issue.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jun 29, 1993

I applaud the action taken today by CBS and by the other major broadcast networks to begin addressing the problem of violence on television.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 27, 1972

I have seen on occasion over these years sometimes some scroungy-looking people that are spitting on policemen and calling them pigs and the rest.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· May 14, 1972

We must all stand together to eliminate its vicious threat from our public life; we must not permit the shadow of violence to fall over our country again.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· May 14, 1972

The increase in physical attacks on police officers, and the rise in police killings (up 26 percent last year to 126), must be reversed.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· May 14, 1972

I ask all Americans to join me in praying for his speedy and full recovery, and also for that of the others who were wounded in this senseless and tragic incident.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· May 14, 1972

Our Nation has suffered more than enough already from the intrusion of violence into its political processes.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 27, 1968

We are asking him to attack the root causes of violence and turmoil--poverty, disease, ignorance, and hopelessness.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 14, 1966

Our purpose is to demonstrate to the remaining advocates of violence that there is more human profit to be had from peace than there is from war.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Aug 19, 1952

We must not use bayonets to force these prisoners to return to slavery and almost certain death at the hands of the communists.

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