Quote#Time
I shall spend very little time in the purely ornamental part of the…
Quote byGrover Cleveland · 1837–1908
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to his brother Rev. William N. Cleveland (7 November 1882); published in The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland (1892), p. 534..
English (original)
I shall spend very little time in the purely ornamental part of the office. In point of fact, I will tell you, first of all others, the policy I intend to adopt, and that is, to make the matter a business engagement between the people of the State and myself, in which the obligation on my side is to perform the duties assigned me with an eye single to the interest of my employers.
— Grover Cleveland
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