"I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past."
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"No one can move without some leadership."
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"I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are."
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"Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings."
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"I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people."
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"You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence."
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"I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge."
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"To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy."
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"I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership."
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"I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism."
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"I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me."
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"I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been."
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"We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves."
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"I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong."
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"Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed."
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"I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country."
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"It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use."
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"the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed."
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"In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship."
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