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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
"Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion."
"I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity."
"These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable."
"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."
"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"
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"Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point."
"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."
"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."
"Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story."
"After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes."
"There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?"
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