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As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them, and a lot of them were on record talking about what a good colleague I am and how I like to get things done.

Julian Assange is very clearly a tool of Russian intelligence. And ah, he has done their bidding. You don't see damaging negative information coming out about the Kremlin on WikiLeaks. You didn't see any of that published. So I think Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power under neoliberalism that's unprecedented. They control the cultural apparatuses. And what I mean by "cultural apparatuses" is all those institutions that are about the production of knowledge, values, dispositions, and subjectivities. They control them.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.