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"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."

"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."

"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

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"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."
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