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• Grace Hopper:

  If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission

• Grace Hopper:

  It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

• Grace Hopper:

  No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  All politics is local.

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself serio

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to re

• Thomas P. O'Neill:

  I regard myself as a grand juror waiting to hear the evidence from the prosecutor, the Judiciary Co