In fact, he often says, the governorship has long been his for the taking.
His most formative memory, he often says, was being bombed and evacuated in London during World War II.
Republicans speak dismissively of such pledges, saying that in earlier negotiations, the president has never been willing to close a deal with the type of changes he often says he will accept.
He says often people only say good things about a person when they are dead, in eulogies.
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But no matter how often he says these things, many people will not believe him, just because of who and what he is.
He is also unimpressed by the "express lanes" and the ways of getting people with a few purchases through more quickly - which he says often lack flexibly, so there are queues at the express check-out and empty tills elsewhere.
While top-shelf stars like Ferrell and Cage often sell more tickets, he says their movies are often that much more expensive to produce and, as a result, rarely turn a sizable profit for their studios.
Now he'll only invest in companies with strong patent portfolios, something he says other investors often overlook.
You can almost see the echo of it playing in his head, and then, he likes it so much, he says it again, often smiling.
He says he often gets questions about which apps should be migrated to the cloud.
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John often says he would rather lose a campaign than lose a war.
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Brady, who runs the region's alternative fuels outreach program, says he often gets calls from flex-fuel car owners like Davidson.
He says he often spends his weekend pondering whether Akamai has lived up to the goals Danny Lewin set for it.
He says individuals often belong to sub groups within the Sapeur culture, such as the Piccadilly group, who dress in Scottish kilts.
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Dorsey says he often gets 30 to 40 meeting notes every day.
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That was a short musical gestation for Gotye, who says he often takes a couple of years to work on any given song.
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And contenders are already baying to replace the PA's increasingly frail president, Mr Abbas, now 75, who often says he wants to step down.
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The Chinese-speaking Vladislavovich says he often gets together on the border for informal parties with Chinese counterparts who repeatedly assure him of their peaceful intentions.
He says clients often fail to take that into account, and so think their mortgage is costing them far less after tax than it really is.
Trostel says he often uses over 50 megabytes of data traffic a month, a sum that would be inconceivable for a phone user just a year or two ago.
Indonesian director Garin Nugroho, who served as a judge at this year's international film festival, says he often flies in from Jakarta because facilities are much better in the city-state.
He says cyclists often underestimate the risks they face when they are on the roads, in particular if they are in an accident where they are found to be at fault themselves.
In fact, Harris, the Seattle lawyer who has chronicled the issue on his "China Law Blog, " speculates that "honest and legal" companies--particularly American and European ones--could be left holding the bag if Chinese exporters don't pay the tax, as he says is often the case.
Jim Waterhouse, a professor of biological rhythms at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, England, says he often recommends that people crossing three time zones or less and only staying three days or less might want to consider maintaining the same sleeping and waking schedule from home rather than trying to shift the body clock.
More than 30 years later, Law often says that he still feels guilty for the goal.
Men, he says, are often less verbally expressive of their feelings and may show them with expensive gifts.
What corporate leaders (and others) too often miss, he says, is that there are two different kinds of creativity.
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He says Holocaust survivors often react more viscerally to wars involving Israel.
He says there is often a lack of transparency in how some governments report the incentives, with many transferred as hard-to-calculate tax credits.
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