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"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
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"I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
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"Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office."
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"Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?"
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"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
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"Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office."
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"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."
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"Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office."
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"What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself."
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
Enemy
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
Experience
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Leadership
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Friendship
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
Experience
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
Acceptance
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
Decision-Making
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