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• It is unfortunate we can’t buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

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• People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We’re going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

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• Over time, there’s a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the ’70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

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• One thing on psychology, which we’ve always known, is that every investor says they’re long-term – and they are until the market takes a hit.

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• Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that’s a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

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• I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney’s going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, ‘what was Obama’s record?’ Governor Romney’s got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

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• You don’t change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

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• What you do as president has consequences.

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• We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

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• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world’s only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

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• There’s plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

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• There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people’s money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

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• The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

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• The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

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• The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

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• The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

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• Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

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• No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

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• If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

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• As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

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Birth:	18th July, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Chief Executive Officer, Politician, Publisher

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Today's Anniversary - 29th May

Births

• 1910 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos
• 1957 - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 1959 - Rupert Everett
• 1947 - Vicky Gene Robinson
• 1630 - King Charles II

Deaths

• 2004 - Sam Dash
• 1979 - Mary Pickford
• 1911 - William Gilbert
• 2004 - Samuel Dash