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Peggy Noonan: If you commit...

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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Source: On the insanity verdict handed down to John Hinckley, would-be assassin of President Reagan in 1981, as reported by Noonan and Dan Rather; In What I Saw at the Revolution, ch. 2, 1990.
-- Peggy Noonan, (Sep 7 1950-____), US writer; She is best known for What I Saw at the Revolution, 1990.


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