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“Politics,” he would say, “is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives.” And that’s what he tried to do every day he served in
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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
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“Trump closed by saying Lighthizer would be in charge of the deal-making, and Kushner would also be involved, at which point all the Chinese perked up and smiled. You bet.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“After I left the White House, when Trump abandoned the Kurds in Syria, there was speculation about who he might abandon next.27 Taiwan was right near the top of the list, and would probably stay there as long as Trump remained President, not a happy prospect.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“The other reason mathematicians were blind to chaos was that they had no computers, and were left with the kind of vague description that Poincaré gave, which other mathematicians failed to understand.”
― The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
― The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
“I briefed Trump on what we knew, and he said he might tweet about it. I urged him, if he did so, to rely only on public sources, but as was so often the case, he ignored this warning, tweeting instead: Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe! Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong. I can’t imagine why? So much for stopping all those leaks from the “deep state.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
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