"So I came to Washington, where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore; not that I do not respect this as a good part of America but in its general routine the heart of America is felt less here than at any place I have ever been."
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Huey Long, remarks in the Senate, May 17, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10393.
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