Carolina QuotesThe time has come to stop telling the American people only what they want them to hear, and start talking frankly about the sacrifices we must all make.
John B. Anderson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
As quoted in “Anderson Offers Barter: Ideas for Votes” by Bernard Weinraub, in The New York Times (12 March 1980)
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- 1980
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