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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."

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

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

"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."

"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."

"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is."

"You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands."

"I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world."
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"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."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

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