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- Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out the right thing to do. Now, it is not only necessary to do the right thing, but to do it in the right way and the only problem you have is what is the right thing to do and what is the right way to do it. That is the problem. But this economy of ours is not so simple that it obeys to the opinion of bias or the pronouncements of any particular individual, even to the President. This is an economy that is made up of 173 million people and it reflects their desires, they're ready to buy, they're to spend, it is a thing that is too complex and too big to be affected adversely or advantageously just by a few words or any particular - say a little this and that, or even a panacea so alleged.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), when asked if nuclear war could be limited to tactical weapons (Verbatim transcript from a press conference)
- I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.
- California Govenor Jerry Brown, San Francisco Examiner, Oct 12, 1980
- The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
- Ronald Reagan in 1973
- I'm not sure I've even got the brains to be President.
- Barry Goldwater in 1964
- Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), as given in A. Schlesinger Jr's, "A Thousand Days"
- A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.
- Marcel Ophuls
- Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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