"Charles O. Jones" (born 1931) is Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.[http://millercenter.org/about/staff/jones_c Charles O. Jones - Miller Center of Public Affairs] He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14891525.html Charles O. Jones: political institutionalist. - PS: Political Science & Politics / HighBeam Research - FREE trial] He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim fellow.[http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=j&page=5 All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation] He is a leading scholar of American politics. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Governmental Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. Jones has written or edited 18 books and contributed over 100 articles and book chapters.

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Leaders are Readers.

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We've got an amazing coalition with the Jewish community, the Catholic community, the Protestant Christian community.

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You want someone who is good at both, the policy part of it and the selling part.

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We really wanted to open the season with a bang and we felt that featuring well-known stars of Broadway would be a grand gesture, ... It will be a great pleasure to work with folks who have presented these pieces on the New York stage.

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In a time when his party almost never exceeded 51 percent of the seats in the House, he was able time and again to command the discipline to deliver. He was always playing on the edge, and people who play on the edge, and are effective, become targets.

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We had children lying everywhere. They had all been shot.

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It's certainly worth the effort, but it's damned hard to do.

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We didn't come to play tonight. They came out and played harder than we did.

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My reading of this president is he seems to go with his judgment and the judgment of his team and then builds as much support as possible.

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He is not inclined to hold back.

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We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

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If you're not legal, you don't need to wait on this.

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My impression of what they're trying to do after the first few days is to recover exactly the kind of performance that they say they're good at, which is essentially an executive-style leadership. That is to say, 'We've got good people in all the top positions, we're hierarchical, we plan.' That's how they're trying to recover. You go with your strength to a point of weakness.

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Traditionally our slowest month, August saw a material increase of 61.9 percent in new software license revenue compared to August of fiscal year 2005.

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