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"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."
"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
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"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
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