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"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide."

"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."

"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
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"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

"I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up."

"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."

"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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