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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."
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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
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"As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world."
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"The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it."
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"The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way."
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"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
Job

"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan."
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"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."
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"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."
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"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
Past

"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place."
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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
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"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."
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