[to Cabinet members]
As the preacher said; "I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop."
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
Trust? Oh. I'm sorry, I was under the misapprehension your chosen profession was politics. I never trusted the President, never trusted anyone, but hasn't he surprised you?
Nothing surprises you, Asa, therefore nothing about you is surprising. Perhaps that is why your constituents did not re-elect you to the coming term?
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