"Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive."

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"In order to do something you must be something."

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People

"So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out."

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"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."

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"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."

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"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."

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