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"I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything."
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"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."

"We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title."

"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

"My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar."
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"As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord."

"I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed."

"In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on."

"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set."

"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best."

"We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually."

"They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group."

"I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives."
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