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"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."
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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
"During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village."
"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."
"And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership."
"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up."
"Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House."
"You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck."
"If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought."
"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."
"Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue."
"Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective."
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