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  • Itake it as a compliment whenanagent ofthelargest and most heinous bully of the century, the Soviet Union, accuses me of being a bully.

    - Alexander Meigs,Jr Haig
      On how he was seen as US Secretary of State by former Soviet  Ambassador  Anatoly Dobrynin. In the Washington Post, 27 Oct.

  • You let a bully come into your front yard, and the next day he'll be on your porch.

    - Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
      In Time,  Apr.

  • If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpit†more refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.

    - Nancy Reagan
      In the NewYorkTimes,10 Mar.

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