“No, I didn't read the budget. I hired people to read the budget. You read the budget? Well, yeah. It's the difference between somebody who's in Congress and somebody who's a governor.”

2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)

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43rd President of the United States 1946

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