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"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."
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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff."

"Major policy reform in the petroleum sector. Under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy, there will be pricing and marketing freedom and a transparent revenue-sharing methodology. This will eliminate many layers of bureaucratic controls."

"Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure."

"But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics."

"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."
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"If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take."

"There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either."

"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."

"The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day."
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