Political Quotes

On the recordDecember 19, 2007
I do think, when you start using the word cocaine, as Mark Penn did, it does suggest it, and I think it can have some reverberations.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Gergen comments on the implications of discussing drug use in the context of the campaign.

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