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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms."


"The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference."


"Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world."


"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together."


"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods."


"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."


"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."


"Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy."


"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."
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