“George [H. W. Bush] brought his ne'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job.”

— Ronald Reagan

Cited to a Reagan diary entry in 1986, but actually from a parody written by Michael Kinsley in June 2007.
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