"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."

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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."

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"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

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"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

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"It sure is hell to be president."

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"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

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"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

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"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

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