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Well, Mr. Prime Minister, I can't waste any more time on you. I must get back to work.

— John Diefenbaker

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Source: From a conversation with Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier (29 July 1910) when Diefenbaker was 14; quoted in Canada's Prime Ministers, 1867 - 1994: Biographies and Anecdotes (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1994).
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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