quote needed

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 1 14:16:37 PST 2000


A (non-American) friend writes...


>Can you think of a quote, by a United States President (rooseveldt,
>or someone)
>that I can use to keep away the dogs. I am delivering a lecture on
>Globalisation
>next week[...]
>
>However, my hosts and other speakers are pretty conservative and I am cloaking
>my opening argument in a kind of "well you might not like what I am about to
>say, but I represent the right to voice
>unconventional/unorthodox/South/left/dissident views" then I want to asy, as
>XXXXXX said: something that will shut them up and get them to listen. I find
>that mainstream USians are easily placated when you use one of theirs as
>justification.

Can anyone help out?

Doug



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