“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.