"Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks."
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"How can we help President Obama?"
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"Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty."
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"If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken."
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"[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."
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"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders."
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"Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth"
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"Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass."
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"Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business."
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"It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded."
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"Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility."
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"Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently."
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"I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them."
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"I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers."
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"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."
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"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."
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"No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on."
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"Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years."
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"There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president."
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"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
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