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Bonus Quote of the Day

May 12, 2014 at 10:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“If you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one.”

— Bill Clinton, as recounted by Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) in his new memoir, Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black, after Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 South Carolina Democratic primary to Barack Obama.

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