"I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the C.T.B.T."
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Jesse Helms (1999), in reference to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (quoted in The New York Times, ""Defeat of a Treaty: The Tactics; Quietly and Dexterously, Senate Republicans Set a Trap," October 14, 1999).
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