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Dean Acheson

"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

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"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

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"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."

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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

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"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."

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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."

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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."

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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

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"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman."

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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

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