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Ted Turner - "Rwanda is just as clean a country as Switzerland" (Law Compels Monthly Clean Up)
ABC News This Week ^ | November 20, 2010 | ABC News This Week

Posted on 11/28/2010 9:45:11 AM PST by DogByte6RER

TURNER: Or don't have any money. One thing they can do is pick up trash. That's what I do. We're in New York now and yesterday I walked around the block and I picked up trash and put it in the garbage --

AMANPOUR: I don't believe you.

TURNER: I swear to God. Absolutely. I pick up trash in Atlanta.

AMANPOUR: Why?

TURNER: Because I want to set a good example. President Kagame of Rwanda has passed a rule that on the third Saturday of each month, the entire country has to go out from 8 - 11 and pick up trash, including him, and the cabinet of Rwanda. They all go out and pick up trash and Rwanda is just as clean a country as Switzerland is.

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