"The big fight is coming up--Ali and Frazier. I call him Muhammad Ali 'cause that's what he wants. Oh, yeah, he's a big dude and he hits hard, you know, I'll call him what he wants. But it's good that he's being allowed to work again, as you know he couldn't work for three years. Of course, he had a strange job, beating people up. But that was his right, he could have that job. The government wanted him to change jobs. The government wanted him to kill people. He thought it over and he said: 'No, that's where I draw the line. Uh, I'll beat 'em up, but I don't wanna kill 'em.' And the government told him: 'Well, if you won't kill 'em, we won't let ya beat 'em up!'"
-George Carlin,
Ed Sullivan Show, 1971