“I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.”

—  John F. Kennedy

Quoted in Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye, Kenneth O'Donnell, Dave Powers, and Joseph McCarthy, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1970, page 262.
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