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  1. “Must have got 25 phone calls from people in my hometown. It's a very small hometown. They're like, we can't believe you are in the White House, in the Oval Office with President Obama. And that shook me because I was like, because they kind of live, a lot of them live through me. But they were so excited from somebody in their little small town. Was in the White House with President Obama and in the Oval Office. But to get back to your point, man, I think I've done some stupid things in my life. I've done some great things in my life. When I die, I just hope people, because I always joke about this, it's the truth, it's a joke, but it's truth. Like, everybody has to lie at funerals and said, what a great guy. And let's be honest, there's some people who die. You're like, I'm glad they're gone. I'm glad they're gone.”

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  2. “I'm not even worried about a long time. Man, first of all, I think it's only sad when kids die. I'm 55. If I ain't done nothing good by now, it don't matter. I tell people that all the time, they look at me like, I said, I don't want to die, but I've had a 55-year good run. I've exceeded all my expectations. Trust me, when you're growing up in the projects of Leeds, Alabama, Your mom's a maid, your grandmother working at meatpack in Ferry, and you grew up to be Charles Barclay. I've been all over the world. I met the most amazing people. You and the president brought me to the White House a couple times. I was like, and it was so funny. One time there's a picture, and I got it on my wall, a man, President Obama, standing in the Oval Office. And I didn't even know he had sent it out.”

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  3. “And I don't want a job where I got built in opposition every day. Hey, listen, let's just find common ground. Let's find a way to fix the public school system. Let's help these kids from Dhaka. Let's fix Puerto Rico. Let's fix infrastructure and things like that. Everybody might not get what they want. Let's just figure this thing out. But we ain't going to fight every day on television. And that's the reason I don't want to get involved in politics.”

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  4. “But they pay better. They pay better on that. Like, when I'm watching television every day, the Republicans and Democrats disagree on every subject. That's impossible. Impossible I can bring a guy in here from the Klu Klus Klan and I'm guarantee we could agree on something. We might have totally different lies and whatever, but we're not going to disagree on every single subject. And when I'm watching television every day, I'm like, come on, man, you can't disagree on every subject.”

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  5. “Not really because I'm disgusted in the political process. When I mean by that is I don't want to go to work and argue with somebody every day.”

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  6. “Okay, this is just my personal opinion. I'm an amateur psychiatrist right now. So he goes to school Successful Out of school, his family helps him start a business. He's 21, 22, somewhere in now. So he's got millions of dollars right out of the gate. Turns that into He's 20 some years old. So he's the boss at 20. We're rounded down. He turns millions into billions. Now he's 70 He's never worked for another person a day in his life. He's always been the boss. Guarantee anybody who ever said something he didn't like, they were really fired. So you can see how he's developed his mentality. I'm always right. I don't have to listen to other people. I mean, think about it. For 50 years, he's always been the king. He's never worked for another person in his life. How many people actually can say that? Now you're the president of the free world.”

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  7. “Depends on the celebrity. You know I think when you look at President Trump, I was trying to explain his personality to my friends.”

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  8. “I think, first of all, I think first of all, I'm biased. He's a great friend. I think he's heart's in the right place. I think he'd do a good job as president. I do because I know it's hard to write. But like I say, I'm biased because he's a good friend. Know once the toothpaste is out the tube, we're gonna have more celebrity presidents. Going forward.”

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  9. “Olympics and Saturday at the final four. It's nothing like it. I had never been to a final four until we started broadcasting that final four. And that Saturday at the Final Four is the coolest thing you're ever going to see. But the Olympics are better. The Olympics are the, and the television can only show you what they want to show, yes. But when you're at the Olympics and see how much pride these guys have in their country, it's amazing. It's amazing.”

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  10. “Not even close because we didn't have any weaknesses. Like every guy on that team is in the Hall of Fame except Christian Leitner. We were too deep at every position. We were big. We were athletic. We had it all. I mean, our two centers were David Robinson and Patrick Ew Great defenders can run. I mean, we had Michael and Magic Johnson. I mean, we had no weaknesses. And I tell people, that was one of the coolest experiences of my life. And I'll tell you this. You get a chance to go to the Olympics, go to the Olympics. The two greatest of sporting events in the world.”

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  11. “Yes. And I love a guy like her brother. He was like a brother to me. And that hurt a lot, number one. But you know, I think it's important in my job to be fair. Honest. Because if you have a double standard, because I say stuff about other people too. You can't say things about other general managers, coaches. Don't say it about your friends because the one thing about basketball is such a close knit community. And I've had players call me. I've had coaches call me. I've had general managers call me and said, why did you? And I said, listen, can I explain to you why I said it? And if they talk to me about it, I said, listen, I didn't say you were awful at your job. I said, in this situation, what you did was not right or wrong or blah, blah, blah.”

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  12. “Basketball players, we're like a full time relief pitchers I know every night, like a great closer. Like, he might blow the game, but he got to come back the next night. In basketball, we play 8-2 games. And I know in 82 games there was a close game cooking to Charles, what do you want the ball at? And you have to have a very... Tough Because you have to be like, I missed that shot last night. And I let, and you feel that pressure internally, but also you feel like you let the rest of the guys down. But you have that mentality, we got to gain tomorrow. That's the mental part is the thing you have to master more than anything.”

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  13. “Carl Malone was great. Patrick Ewan was great. But like, unless I'm playing against one of those guys, there's nobody else can touch me.”

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  14. “No, the games always slow down when you're a great player. It's weird. One of my coaches asked me something one time. One of my favorite coaches, a guy named Jimmy Linem. Pulls me aside one day. He said, Can I shoot a basketball course? I sure. Coach, you asked me anything. The game in slow motion to you. And I said, let me think about that. I said, Coach, it is. When I was at the peak of my superpowers, it's like I can see everybody moving slow and I'm moving faster. But it's just happening in the game so you're not thinking about it. Right. But when you go back in your little moments, you're like, man, I'm so much better than everybody else out here. Like, because there's only five guys on your level when you're great. Like Magic Bird, guys who are playing in my day, Magic Bird, Michael.”

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  15. “If they don't win the championship, it's going to be like they're not going to say, they're going to say, well, James Harden, Chris Paul didn't win a championship. I'm like, you know, they playing with 10 other guys. But there's a daughter”

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  16. “No. Cobra's a step below. LeBron's a step below, but Michaels here. You get all the credit and you get all the blame. So that is a mental pressure. First of all, very few people can handle it. Because even today, this thing is like, well, Charles Barker never won a championship. I got to live with that. But I don't go crazy. I wasn't playing by myself. But the point about being great is kind of a double-edged sword. You get all the credit, but you also get all the blame. That's that thing that drives you. I mean, that's the thing that drove Michael, drives everybody because nobody knows, like right now, let's take a great player. Like James Hard is a great player. Chris Paul's a great player.”

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  17. “There's a tremendous amount of pressure. It's a double edged sword. Like, I'm not on Michael Jordan's level. I'm a step below. I'm man enough to admit that.”

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  18. “They said, you can play basketball to try to stick it to everybody else. You know, all those kids who laugh at you in high school when you didn't graduate and they graduated, you need to let that go. And I sit down and I cried. I says, it was emotional. I said, okay, from this day forward, I'm just going to wanna be a great player for myself. And that was a turning point in my life, that night in New Jersey. Because at that point, I was just trying to, I said, I want to be great to stick it to these people, these people, these people. And I had to take a look in the mirror. And that was the turning point.”

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  19. “And I said, this is the last time in my life I'm going to let anybody control my destiny. And so my first X amount of years in the NBA, I was mad at my dad. I was mad at Ms. Gomez or Flancame in Spanish. And I played with such a, I was totally out of, I was out of control probably. And then I had to spit an incident in New Jersey. Yeah, with Lauren. And that changed my whole life. A negative thing changed my whole life because I had to sit down and say, hell man. To let this thing with your dad go I don't know why you're mad at Ms. Gomez. It was your fault for flunk in Spanish. First of all, it was your fault for taking Spanish. And I said, You need to take a step back and just want to be greeted basketball for yourself. I thought about it. And I was like, man, it was my moment of truth. It was my moment of truth.”

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  20. “senior year we were like undefeated and then I got hurt again and we lost again I was totally depressed so I quit school for like I was just fried. I couldn't believe we had lost. So I got it back together, but I end up flunking Spanish. So I didn't get to graduate. So in my hometown, we graduated outside on a football field. So my dad actually came to town and he ripped me a new one. And I was already in a fog. I was out of it. So I went to the baseball stadium. It was next door. And I stood on the top Ron and cried for two hours.”

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  21. “I had to because everybody I played, I think somebody showed me a spat. First of all, I'm the only player in the history of basketball who never played against somebody who was shorter than them, taller than them. I mean, I always was short. I never played against anybody in my entire life because I played center in high school. But my entire college and pro career, I never played against anybody who was shorter than me. I was always the shortest guy out there in the post. And I had to play with it. But it got me in trouble, though. It got me in trouble because You know, I was mad at the world for a long time. I was mad at my dad. Another secret so Junior year, I got hurt. We lost for the state championship my junior year.”

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  22. “And he says, you give me 10 rebounds a night, you're playing the NBA for 10 years or more. I said, coach, you got me. You know, like Jerry Maguire, like she had me at hello. He said, hey, if you get double digit rebounds a night, you'll be in the NBA for a dozen years. And the rest was history.”

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  23. “My dad left way, long time ago. But I just wanted to go to college for free because I knew that my mother and grandmother could not afford and I didn't want to borrow a lot of money. And it worked out great for me. Up until my sophomore year in college, I'm not even thinking about the NBA I'm like, I'm a 6'5 power forward, but I'm going to get a quality education. And then I had a unique skill set being able to get rebound. A rebound of month was my thing. And my coach said, hey, if you get 10 rebounds, he showed me. Riley Mountain, yeah. He showed me the stats one day. He says, how many guys in the NBA you think averaging double digit rebounds? I said 30, 40. He says, nope, there's about 10. He says, Can you get me 10 rebounds a night? I said, I can get you 10 rebounds a night in my sleep.”

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  24. “I did because I wanted to get my legs as strong as possible. But in the beginning, all I did was really ironic. It's come full turn. I just wanted to go to college for free. Because like I say, you know, my mom was a maid My grandma was in the meatpacking factory. I just want to get a free scholarship”

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  25. “I did not. But when I grew from 5'10 to 6'5, the best thing that happened to me was being 5'10 because I played point guard. The best ability I had was to be able to dribble the ball. So even though everybody I played against was bigger, I always had an advantage because they didn't want to get out on the floor. Big guys always want to stay around the basket. So my bill of the dribble was the best thing ever happened to me.”

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  26. “The school, we got to start making the schools pay for not graduating players. That to me, when I first started doing marsh matters, that was the number one thing I said because I was happy just doing the NBA. And they said, will you do Mars Matters? I said, not that big of a deal if I don't do it. They're like, we want you to do it. And it turned into a blessing. It's been amazing. But I said, this is what I want in return. I need you to start graduating more of these players. And I think they're getting better. They're not where I want them to be. Any player who doesn't make who wants to graduate, they should keep them on scholarship as long as possible.”

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  27. “No, not even one year. Like for the first semester or the first quarter, and that'll get them through basketball season, and then they don't go to class the second half of the season. That's one of the little dirty secrets that people never talk about. But we've been talking about it for like the X amount of years. Like, you go to class for the first semester or the first quarter. By the time your grades come out the second time, the season's over. And I mean, that's a big problem. And like I say, I don't know how to solve that problem.”

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  28. “But see, that's a great question, but it's not a simple answer. There's so many moving parts. Like the one and done now, these kids, the dirt is secret with one and done is these kids go to class for the first time.”

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  29. “Going to bring a ton of resentment from the other players. Like if I'm the offensive lineman and I'm opening holes for the running back and blocking for the quarterback and they're making an extra meal a year with their jerseys and I'm not getting a dime, I'm not going to be happy with that. I mean, so, like I say, I want to do as much for these players as possible. But like I say, always get offended when people act like the notion, like, because everybody I know tell me they got debt from college tuition.”

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  30. “And first of all, a lot of these schools got swimming, diving, equestrian sports. I never even pay attention to. But you're going to have to pay everybody. You just can't pay the football and the basketball team. And another question is, and people say, well, won't you let a guy sell his likeness? I says, well, that's great if you're the quarterback or the running back. Nobody's buying a big, ugly defensive lineman and offensive lineman's jersey. And let me tell you something. If I'm in the locker room and I'm Charles Barclay, and I look at the stands and there's 10,000 Charles Barkle jerseys, and I'm making an extra half a billion a year, and I'm looking around in the locker room. These guys look at me like, oh, you the only one working out here?”

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  31. “The NBA NCAA has not done a great job going back to my time. They have not done it because a lot of times they just give you class to keep you eligible. So that's got to be fixed. But like I said, the notion that you can get a free education is a big deal. You know, everybody say well we should pay these kids, but they don't give you a solid plan because you can't just pay the basketball and the football team.”

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  32. “Just respond. I do no social media because I don't feel the need to talk to everybody because you have to realize you can't make everybody happy. Some people dislike you just because you're successful, but you can't be drunk. You can't be mad. You can't be coming off a bad game. You have to really be careful if you're going to tweet, do Facebook or anything like that because it's out there. And it doesn't seem the thing people don't understand is it doesn't matter what they say to you. If you're famous and you say something to them, that's when it becomes, I think the term is viral. Yeah, so that's what you have to really be careful of.”

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  33. “But if you go back and look at history, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, Tommy Smith, Bill Russell, Jim Brown. Athletes are always spoken out. Always, we've never not spoken out actually. And now with social media and the platforms these guys have. But I want to say this one thing though. I think a guy has to be very careful. Very thoughtful”

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  34. “Well, LeBron's up. I think LeBron James' story And I've said this before. I think it's the greatest sports story ever. What I mean by that For 18 year old kid who's the only one I've ever seen was good enough out of high school. Not even Kobe, Kevin Garnett, Trace McGrady, none of those guys were ready when they got to the NBA. Before 18-year-old kid to come to the NBA, Live up to the In a conversation that's in some of the great, arguably one of the five to ten greatest players ever, never came close to getting in trouble, ever. And a great guy. One of the greatest stories ever”

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  35. “Because I just wanted to start a dialogue because I don't want our black kids thinking they can only play sports and be entertainers. We got a lot of black doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, fireball policemen, but they're not on television. They only see Ezekiel Elliott Odell Beckham, LeBron. I mean, they don't see doctors in law. They only see the guys who make a crap load of money. God bless all these guys, I might add, but they don't see black doctors and lawyers and engineers on television enough.”

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  36. “And I says, hey, well, what do you guys want to do? I said, Well, how many of you guys want to play pro sport? It was only like 5% to 7% raised their hands. I said, what do you want to do? I want to be a doctor. I want to be a lawyer. I want to be an engineer. I'm like, so then I go to a black school. I said, well, how many of y'all want to play sports? They're like, me, me, me, me, me. Like 95% of them. And I was like, okay, this is a thing. So, okay, so then the group I got with me, it's like, dude, it's the same at every school. And that's when I went to Nike. I said, hey, this is going to be controversial, but I want to do it. I said, I can take the heat, but it will start a dialogue. And even to this day, I have people come up to me and say, hey, great commercial. Even today.”

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  37. “Well, I think it's up to each individual. See, people, first of all, that role model commercial is probably the best thing I've ever did in my life because it's sparked a nationwide debate And what I was trying to do was get a conversation going because, David, I noticed, I think I made that commercial in 88 maybe. But I noticed something. Every black kid was thinking they were going to play pro sports, and it was driving me crazy because, you know, we still have segregated schools in this country. So I'm visiting all these schools. And I noticed this terrible trend. So I'm going to this white school.”

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  38. “See, he did that in Alabama because he knew that was his red meat. You know, he placed his audience very well. I mean, he plays his audience very well.”

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  39. “Yes. And the president hijacked the entire scenario. And, you know, you talk about Alabama again. That's when he made the famous speech about when he went down and campaigned for Roy Moore in that area. He said, like, wouldn't it be great if one of those guys kneel and one of the owners just came down told me to get the hell off my team?”

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  40. “Distractions Okay, so let me get back to the Alabama thing. A couple things bothered me about the Alabama thing, also. I didn't want When he bought in Steve Bannon, to me that was the last straw. Because he's a white separatist, we can't have a politician running for office that we know is a white separatist. We can't have that. I mean, he brings in Steve Bannon, and I'm like, wait, you can't bring in a white separatist and run for a state office. You're supposed to represent everybody. I think what Colin Kaepernick did was amazing. Now, he's going to pay. He's blackballed. He's probably never going to play in the NFL again. The president hijacked the entire conversation, Chris, talking about the flag. I don't think Colin had any disrespect for the flag. It's a really awful situation.”

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  41. “I have an issue with both parties, but I think speaking as a Democrat, we, we have not held a Democrats accountable. Like, I say, everybody in my life has voted Democrat our entire life. And now we're starting like, well, how much is it really helped us? Like I say, we know the Republicans aren't better. Let's get that out the way. But if you're going to have us vote for you, we got to start holding them accountable. Our neighborhoods are not better. Our schools are not better. So we got to start a Holly Nates politicians accountable”

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  42. “Forever. I voted Democrat for 55 straight years. First of all, I want to make a clear. I don't think the Republicans are better. But I think we as black people have not held Democrats accountable for taking our votes for all these years. I look at my hometown. I don't think other factors I was able to duck a basketball. I don't see a lot of change in my neighborhood or my state. But I think.”

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  43. “I was embarrassed for my state Know David, when I went down there, every news organization in the country was there. And why were they there to see if we were stupid enough to vote for Roy Moore? They don't care about no Alabama Senate election. They were there to see the train wreck. And as a proud Alabamian, I was disgusted and embarrassed that we were looking like idiots to the world. Doug Jones is a good man. I don't know Roy Moore. I'm not a Roy Moore fan. But I was just embarrassed that my state was looking like idiots around the country.”

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  44. “It's definitely a distraction. We don't talk about DACA, we don't talk about Puerto Rico, we don't talk about stuff we need to be talking about.”

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  45. “What good's the end game is my question. Is he going to lose his job? Is he going to be impeached? My thing is, what's the end game? First of all, I want to make it clear. I don't want Russia interfered in our election. And I'm pretty sure they did. But my question is, what is the end game? That's what bothers me. Like, I don't think he's going to lose his job. And we're just wasting.”

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  46. “I do not. I think it's probably true that they got, but I'm pretty sure in area election, state, local, national, somebody can get some dirt on somebody if they wanted to. Like if you put out fillers, you can get dirt. Am I sure? No, I'm not sure. But it's probably true. But what good is it?”

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  47. “I was watching the news last night, and they're still six months out. They don't have power. We don't even mention them anymore because we're wasting all our time on Russia and Stormy Daniels. It's ridiculous.”

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  48. “I think Let me give you an example How foolish silly all this stuff is. So Delta had, I think, 13 people with the NRA, they want to give their discount due to the fly. And a Republican politician passed a bill that penalized Delta like $65 million. Like, this stuff is so ridiculous. The notion that Delta was trying to do the right thing, but they lost $65 million in the process because the Republicans said, no, you don't penalize the NRA like that. That's crazy. That drives me crazy. And it's something else I want to mention too. It's on my mind when we were talking about all this stuff with President. We talk, I want to make sure we don't forget about Dhaka, our public schools, I don't want to forget about those poor people in Puerto Rico either.”

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  49. “Well, because, you know. These last couple of presidential elections. It costs a billion dollars for a job to pay $400,000. It's so much money involved, then this stuff is crazy. The notion that you have to raise a billion dollars for a job to pay $400,000, that doesn't sound crazy to everybody listening to this interview. It's something wrong. But there's so much money coming from all these special interest groups. Politics are so corrupt now. I don't even know if you can put the toothpaste back in the tube.”

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  50. “I believe in carrying a gun. I do. And I'm never going to apologize for that. That being said. When it comes to gun, they should do a comprehensive background check on everybody. I can't even believe we're having this conversation. Like if I walked into a Mercedes dealership and said, give me that Mercedes, they would say, okay, go ahead and take it. We'll worry about your credit later. They would do a background check and see if I can afford it. We should be able to buy guns, but We can click a button and find out every single thing you've done in your life. They don't even do that. And that's ridiculous. They should be able to find out everything you ever did in any state, any country. And that's the least we could do.”

    2018-04-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 230 - Charles Barkley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source