"It saved us, " he said.

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Remember, this part of Africa was supposed to have been the white man's grave - and it certainly saved us from a certain type of colonial experience.

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It saved those 100 American soldiers, some of who join us today.

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It was the quota system, and farming, which saved us.

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"If I am going to name one thing that has saved us, or helped us, from the crisis it is mackerel, " he told CNN.

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They saved the Union, so let us never stop working to perfect it.

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