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A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

All politics is local.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to resign would be unbearable. I know that Republicans see 50 House seats flying out the window in 1974.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

I regard myself as a grand juror waiting to hear the evidence from the prosecutor, the Judiciary Committee. I'm diametrically opposed to Nixon and everything he stands for, but I want to see the evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors first.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

I think the speaker of the House in Congress should be like the Massachusetts speaker: all-powerful. He should appoint committee chairmen and remove them if they stray from the party line. He should be answerable only to the caucus, which can remove him at any time. I'd throw the seniority system out on its ear in Congress.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.

From Thomas P. O'Neill

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