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• Finding out what goes on in the C.I.A. is like performing acupuncture on a rock.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• The politicians's passion is to be mistaken for a statesman. -- 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...
• The humble bureaucrat, like the bass, dwells at the bottom of the pond but grows fat.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• The Synthetic Fuels Corporation, like the egg roll, is shrimp surrounded by dough.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• Asking a Republican Senate and Democratic House to make a law is like trying to fry a single egg in two pans.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• Legislation is a series of catastrophes that results in a policy. -- 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...