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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."

"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."

"My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me."

"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."

"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."

"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."

"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."

"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady."

"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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