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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development. ”
My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations. ”
To be honest, football is my main goal. I never really had a backup plan. ”
Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.' ”
Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress. ”
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ”
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ”
My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job. ”
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money. ”