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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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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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"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
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"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
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"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."
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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends."
Friendship
"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."
Policy
"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."
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"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."
People
"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."
Change
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
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