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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."
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"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years."
"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."
"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."
"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."
"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect."
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"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means."
"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."
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
"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."
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
"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."
"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."
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
"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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