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I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.
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I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
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I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
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We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.
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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
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I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
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What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.
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The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
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Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.
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You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
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