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Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.


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PETE HAMILL I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
PETE WENTZ If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I...
PETE BURNS I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very s...
PETE TOWNSHEND Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth ...
PETE MCCLOSKEY I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it ma...
PETE SEEGER Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
PETE SEEGER I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that...
PETE ASHDOWN Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation sys...
PETE JOHNSON Not everybody has to sing the melody.
PETE SEEGER Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
PETE ROSE It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...
PETE INCAVIGLIA The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.
PETE ASADOURIAN We're in a pretty good position, we need three wins to attain one of main goals, to make the tournam...
PETE ASADOURIAN Berlin's a great team. They're good, it's post-season play and a lot of our guys haven't been in the...
PETE ASADOURIAN Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since D...
PETE ASADOURIAN We didn't even know. We came out. The boys took the floor early and we heard all the commotion. It w...
PETE ASADOURIAN We were getting shots off but nothing was falling for us early. I think guys came out a little tight...
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