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"Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since."
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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

"Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need."

"Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!"

"Be the chief but never the lord."

"When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you."

"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."

"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"

"Decide be a success; decide to be great, decide to be above average, decide to do the very best of you. Do you know who a P.O.O.R person is? P.O.O.R people are those who are "Passing On Opportunities Repeatedly"!"

"You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west."
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"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States."


"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender."


"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."


"There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta."


"Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe."


"Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland."


"The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use."


"This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements."


"It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again."
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