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"If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years."

"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."

"Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep."


"The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited."

"You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine."

"Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?"

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

"Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent."

"People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much."

"I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face."


"If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics."

"This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss."

"We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live."

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

"The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry."

"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano."

"Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy."

"There's no good idea that can't be improved on."

"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier."

"The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful."

"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."

"The course of business shapes public opinion."

"Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee."

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life."

"The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper."

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."

"I skip through the programming to watch the commercials."

"I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently."

"I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."

"Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life."

"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media."

"The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him."

"In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich."

"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."

"I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources."

"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business."

"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years."


"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes."

"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."

"We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world."

"Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch."

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work."


"Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed."

"Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company."

"Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement."

"If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage."

"The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family."

"It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it."
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