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"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
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"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
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"But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again."
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"Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee."
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"I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again."
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"I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much."
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"My job is to make sure we keep performing."
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"If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready."
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"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."
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"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."
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"There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties."
Pressure
"If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person."
Language
"Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans."
Preservation
"Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down."
Evil
"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain."
Friendship
"I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before."
Politics
"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."
Persuasion
"My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters."
Job
"In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing."
Being
"One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them."
Politics
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