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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."
"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
"There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office."
"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."
"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."
"One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it."
"I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world."
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
"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."
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
"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 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."
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