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"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."
"The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this."
"Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made."
"If in doubt, move decisions up to the President."
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"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority."
"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them."
"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."
"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."
"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."
"It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers."
"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care."
"The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush."
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