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All Of Us Have To Do A Better Job Of Teaching Young People Not To Let Themselves Be Defined By The Words Other People Use Against Them.

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All Of Us Have To Do A Better Job Of Teaching Young People Not To Let Themselves Be Defined By The Words Other People Use Against Them.

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Everybody Counts, Everybody Deserves A Chance, Everybody Has A Responsible Role To Play And We All Do Better When We Work Together.

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The Simple Fact Is That We Must Not-and We Will Not-surrender Our Borders To Those Who Wish To Exploit Our History Of Compassion And Justice.

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Let Us All Take More Responsibility Not Only For Ourselves And Our Families But For Our Communities And Our Country.

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Drugs Nearly Killed My Brother When He Was A Young Man And I Hate Them. He Fought Back. And I'm Really Proud Of Him. But I Learned Something In Going Through That Long Nightmare With Our Family. And I Can Tell You, Something Has Happened To Some Of Our Young People. They Simply Don't Think These Drugs Are Dangerous Anymore. Or They Think The Risk Is Acceptable.

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It Turns Out That Advancing Equal Opportunity And Economic Empowerment Is Both Morally Right And Good Economics. Why? Because Discrimination, Poverty And Ignorance Restrict Growth. We Know That Investments In Education, Infrastructure And Scientific And Technological Research Increase Growth. They Increase Good Jobs, And They Create New Wealth For All Of Us.

The Most Powerful People On Earth Are Focus Groups.

Our Relationship Would Never Vary From Its Allegiance To The Shared Values, The Shared Religious Heritage, The Shared Democratic Politics Which Have Made The Relationship Between The United States And Israel A Special-even On Occasion A Wonderful-relationship ... The United States Admires Israel For All That It Has Overcome And For All That It Has Accomplished. We Are Proud Of The Strong Bond We Have Forged With Israel, Based On Our Shared Values And Ideals. That Unique Relationship Will Endure Just As Israel Has Endured.

Americans Long To Be United. After 9/11, We All Just Wanted To Be One Nation. Not A Single American On September The 12, 2001, Cared Who Won The Next Presidential Election.

From Bill Clinton Speech- People Are More Impressed By The Power Of Our Example Rather Than The Example Of Our Power.

The Divide Of Race Has Been America's Constant Curse. Each New Wave Of Immigrants Gives New Targets To Old Prejudices. Prejudice And Contempt, Cloaked In The Pretense Of Religious Or Political Conviction, Are No Different. They Have Nearly Destroyed Us In The Past. They Plague Us Still. They Fuel The Fanaticism Of Terror. They Torment The Lives Of Millions In Fractured Nations Around The World. These Obsessions Cripple Both Those Who Are Hated And, Of Course, Those Who Hate, Robbing Both Of What They Might Become.

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[americans Know] The Traditional Values Of Islam, Devotion To Faith And Good Works, To Family And Society, Are In Harmony With The Best Of American Ideals.

Four Years Ago Nobody But Nuclear Physicists Had Ever Heard Of The Internet. Today Even My Cat, Socks, Has His Own Web Page. I'm Amazed At That. I Meet Kids All The Time, Been Talking To My Cat On The Internet.

Health Care's Complicated, Can Be Misrepresented, It's Personal, It Can Spark Fear, It's Expensive, And The People Who Have Got The Money Want To Keep It.

Leadership Means Bringing People Together In Pursuit Of A Common Cause, Developing A Plan To Achieve It, And Staying With It Until The Goal Is Achieved.

Poverty, Discrimination, And Ignorance Restrict Growth.

You Live In A Country That Makes It Harder To Raise Children Than Any Other Country In The World. You Vote For Me And I'll Give You Family Values.

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My View Is There Will Be Problems And Bad People As Long As The Earth Exists, And Since We're Moving Into A Completely Interdependent Global Environment, We're Better Off Building A World We'd Like To Live In When The United States Are Not The Only Military Superpower. That Is, We Need To Build A World Of Shared Responsibility, Shared Benefits, And Shared Commitment To Our Common Humanity.

When We Put Aside Partisanship, Embrace The Best Ideas Regardless Of Where They Come From And Work For Principled Compromise, We Can Move America Not Left Or Right, But Forward.

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I Mean, You Know, This Idea That Somebody We Disagree With On Economic Or Social Policy Or Something We Have To Turn Into Some Kind Of Ogre Or Demon, I Think, Is A Mistake. I Mean, It's Like Telling The American People Or Half The American People That Don't Agree With You They're All Fools. That's Just Not True.

I Ask You To Join In A Re-united States. We Need To Empower Our People So They Can Take More Responsibility For Their Own Lives In A World That Is Ever Smaller, Where Everyone Counts.... We Need A New Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together, Or The American Dream Will Continue To Wither. Our Destiny Is Bound Up With The Destiny Of Every Other American.

[alternative Energy] Will Make Us Less Dependent On Foreign Oil. It Would Make Us More Secure In Our Future. It Would Mean That Our Foreign Policy Could Be A Reflection Of Our Values And Our Other Interests, And Not Just That.

I Believe We Can Do Much More To Adapt To The Structural Changes In The Global Economy, Get High-end Manufacturing Back Here, Set Up Clusters Of Economic Activity Where You Have, Among Other Things, Continuous Retraining Of People Well Into Their Middle Years So They Never Become Irrelevant To The Current Job Market.

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