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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."
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"Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers."
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"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."
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"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"
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"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."
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"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."
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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
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"In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure."
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"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."
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"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
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"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
Leadership
"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
Audience
"As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life."
Life
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
Power
"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."
Life
"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
Experience
"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
Experience
"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
Nation
"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that."
Endurance
"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
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