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"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
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"Losing your job gives you access to time."

"One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances."

"First opportunity is the golden opportunity."

"Adversity is opportunity inside out."

"Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it."

"Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface, it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!"

"One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch."

"Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It's not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it."

"Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you, you have to go for it."

"Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it."
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"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."

"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."

"I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important."

"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."

"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country."

"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."

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

"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."
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