"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."
— Thomas E. Dewey

January 1, 1970

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United States presidential candidates, 1948Lawyers from the United StatesUnited States presidential candidates, 1944Republican Party (United States) politiciansGovernors of New York
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"One of Dewey's maxims", reported in Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), prologue