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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."

"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me."

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."

"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
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