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"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
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"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."

"The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him."

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

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"When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is."
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"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."

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"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."

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

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