A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
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I discourage a cult of personality.
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I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
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If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
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It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
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It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
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What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
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You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
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