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"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."

"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

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

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

"I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."

"The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president."

"Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue."
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"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."

"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."

"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."

"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid."
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