"As we flew over the city, Margaret leaned close to me. 'Look out the window, Ren. It's all mine. But this isn't the end. I'm going to have more. I'm going to be President of the whole country some day.' "

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" The public defender had now made the same mistake as Dale Ribbits. Both men, ambitious and over-confident, consumed with the politics of the situation, had tried to manipulate the system. And it had boomeranged. They had forgotten about the young girl who had actually been killed; instead, they were intent on their own careers and in being in the limelight."

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" An empty feeling hit my stomach and I felt a sharp pain. My involvement in this bag money process of buying votes and selling favors sucked the very life out of me."