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“If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.”
“Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.”
“I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.”
“I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.”
“There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.”
“I wasn't a great debater.”
“I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.”
“All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.”
“My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.”
“There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.”
“Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.”
“Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.”
“The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.”
“I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.”
“It's nice to be needed.”
“If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.”
“There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.”
“Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.”
“Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.”