"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."

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"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."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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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."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."

Linda M. Godwin, American Astronaut

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"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."

Jackie Cooper, American Actor

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"Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office."

Betty Hill, American Celebrity

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"Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office."

Mary Hart, American Entertainer

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"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

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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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"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."

Art, Science, Strategy, Reform

"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."

Experience, Work, Socialism

"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."

Business, Employees, Law, Limits, State

"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."

Economy, Ownership, State

"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."

Impression, Deep, Events, Parents

"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, Will

"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."

Time, Economy, First, Managers

"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."

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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."

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"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."

Economy, Rules, Want