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"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
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"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President."

"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."

"This President is going to lead us out of this recovery."

"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive."

"I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian."

"Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1."

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."

"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."
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"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."

"Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

"Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else."

"He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

"The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight."
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