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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is n

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. – Dean Acheson

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson

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The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

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My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity. – Mitt Romney

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I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change. – Kamala Harris

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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. – Ed Markey

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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? – Elliot Richardson

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