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"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under."
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"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."
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"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."
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"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."
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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office."
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"Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball."
Food
"As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved."
War
"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
Decision-making
"The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions."
Balance
"There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated."
Government
"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
Cynicism
"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words."
Time
"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
Uncertainty
"I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front."
Confidence
"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
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