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"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."

"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."

"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
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