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• A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• Legislation is a series of catastrophes that results in a policy. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
• Speaking on the record to a journalist is like feeding noodles to a tiger.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• To expect a former senator to be content in the Cabinet is to hope that a warlord will find serenity as a slave.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• To revive the domestic auto industry by deregulation is to offer aphrodisiacs to the dead.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• You may get the Government off the backs of the people, but they will soon demand to be remounted.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• Finding out what goes on in the C.I.A. is like performing acupuncture on a rock.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• The Cabinet is a pig, a serpent, a tiger and an ox brought together and told to produce offspring.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...