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"The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after."

"Apology means nothing without change, you have to follow it up with action."

"The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure."

"The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity."

"We must stop calling corruption a "Nigerian factor"."

"You are responsible for your calling and you must give account."

"Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions."

"When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy."

"AT any given time we are either taking Ownership or Blaming, Ownership is a better choice!!"

"Your past history is NOT an excuse."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."

"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"

"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

"Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point."

"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."

"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."

"Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story."
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