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"When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
Want
"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
People
"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."
Leadership
"Preserve the President's options. He may need them."
Politics
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
Death
"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
Integrity
"When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views."
President
"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
People
"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
Truth
"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."
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"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."
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"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
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Personal Development
"Any intervention, such as that of the German Reichsbank in the Spring of 1923, in which only a small part of the increasing note-expansion was recovered by the banks through the sale of foreign bills, would necessarily be unsuccessful. Led by the idea of opposing speculation, inflationistic governments have allowed themselves to become involved in measures whose meaning is hardly intelligible. Thus at one time the importation of notes, then their exportation, then again both their exportation and importation, have been prohibited. Exporters have been forbidden to sell for their own country's notes, importers to buy with them."
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"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."
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Personal Development
"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one."
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"Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film."
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Personal Development
"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."
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Personal Development
"I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone."
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"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence."
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"My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process."
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