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Quoting Calvin Coolidge:

” You lose!”

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Although Coolidge was known to be a skilled and effective public speaker, in private he was a man of few words and was therefore commonly referred to as “Silent Cal.” A possibly apocryphal story has it that Dorothy Parker, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, “Mr. Coolidge, I’ve made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you.” His famous reply: “You lose.”[82] It was also Parker who, upon learning that Coolidge had died, reportedly remarked, “How can they tell?”[83] Alice Roosevelt Longworth supposedly once commented that, “He looks as if he’d been weaned on a pickle.”[84] Coolidge often seemed uncomfortable among fashionable Washington society; when asked why he continued to attend so many of their dinner parties, he replied, “Got to eat somewhere.”[85]

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Mitch Daniels:

Mitchell Elias “Mitch” Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his four-year term as Indiana’s 49th Governor on January 10, 2005 and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously he was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush and also worked for Eli Lilly and Company. He is cited as a rising star within the Republican party and has approval ratings hovering near 70%.[Wikipedia]

Daniels is reputed also to be a man of few words.