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George H.W. Bush: “Putting innocents at risk is not the way one makes a political statement.”

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Exchange in Kennebunkport, Maine With Reporters Following the Release of American Hostage Edward Tracy

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I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

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