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Quotes by President

"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."

"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."

"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect."

"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."

"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."

"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword."

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."

"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
Want,

"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future."

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."

"What Washington needs is adult supervision."

"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."

"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments."

"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
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