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

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

"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."

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

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

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

"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."

"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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"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

"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."

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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