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America Now Stands As The World's Foremost Power. We Should Be Proud: Not Since The Age Of The Romans Have One People Achieved Such Preeminence. But We Are Not Romans; We Do Not Seek An Empire. We Are Americans, Trustees Of A Vision And A Heritage That Commit Us To The Values Of Democracy And The Universal Cause Of Human Rights.

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America Now Stands As The World's Foremost Power. We Should Be Proud: Not Since The Age Of The Romans Have One People Achieved Such Preeminence. But We Are Not Romans; We Do Not Seek An Empire. We Are Americans, Trustees Of A Vision And A Heritage That Commit Us To The Values Of Democracy And The Universal Cause Of Human Rights.

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I Mean, All Of These Things That [bashar Assad] Has Done, There's No Way Even If President Obama Wanted To Just Play Along That You Could Actually Achieve Peace, Because There Are 65 Million Sunni In Between Baghdad And The Border Of Turkey, Syria, And Iraq, Who Will Never, Ever Again Accept Assad As A Member - As A Legitimate Leader.

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Ability To Change

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Mass Destruction

If America Can Go To The Moon, Then In The Decades To Come We Should Not Ever Have To Have Young Americans Sent To Any Part Of The World To Defend And Die For America`s Gluttony On Fossil Fuel.

Gender Based Violence Anywhere Is A Threat To Peace And Security Everywhere.

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Our Purpose Now Is To Reclaim Democracy Itself. We Are Here To Affirm That When Americans Stand Up And Speak Their Minds And Say America Can Do Better, That Is Not A Challenge To Patriotism; It Is The Heart And Soul Of Patriotism.

I Promise Just To Serve Two Terms. Republicans Do It Differently. They Just Have The Son Repeat The Father's Whole First Term.

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As I Have Said For Two Years Now, When Osama Bin Laden And Al-qaeda Were Cornered In The Mountains Of Tora Bora, It Was Wrong To Outsource The Job Of Capturing Them To Afghan Warlords Who A Week Earlier Were Fighting Against Us.

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I Know That Our Country Is Strongest When We Lead The World, When We Lead Strong Alliances. And That's The Way Eisenhower And Reagan And Kennedy And Others Did It.

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Intelligence Gathering

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Mass Destruction

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I Voted To Threaten The Use Of Force To Make Saddam Hussein Comply With The Resolutions Of The United Nations.

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We Should Not Allow A Tiny Minority Of Shoddy Scientists And Science And Extreme Ideologues To Compete With Scientific Facts.

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Guarantees That

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We Are Not Interested In A Proxy War. Our Objective Is To Change Russia's Behavior.

That Is What Americans Do. We Face A Challenge - No Matter How Great - Because We Know That On The Other Side There Is Always Hope.

I've Met Foreign Leaders Who Can't Go Out And Say This Publicly, But Boy, They Look At You And Say, You've Got To Win This, You've Got To Beat This Guy, We Need A New Policy, Things Like That.

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This Revolution Began With Young People In Syria Demonstrating Because They Wanted A Future. They Wanted Opportunity, Education, And So Forth. They Went Out And They Did It. Thugs Came Out And Beat Them Up. The Parents Got Angry That The Thugs Beat The Kids Up, And They Went Out And Demonstrated, And They Were Met With Bullets. They Were Killed. That's How This Began.

I Get Always A Little Uptight When I Hear Politicians Say How Exceptional America Is.

So The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real.

Mass Destruction

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Great Challenges Confront Our Great Nation. We Seek To Meet Them By Rising To The Task, Not By Defining Our Country Down.

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People Talk About [bashar] Assad Running Syria. He Doesn't Control His Own Country. He's Down To About 20, 25 Percent Of The Country. What Is This Fiction That He Is Somehow The Only Person Who Can Save Syria? There's - With Assad There, There Is No Syria. So That's What The Iranians And The Russians Need To Really Begin To Focus In On.

We Achieved A Deal With The Russians That Didn't Wind Up In Two Days Of Strikes That Would Have Sent A, Quote, "message," But Would Not Have Removed The Weapons. We Struck A Deal To Get All Of The Declared Weapons Out Of Syria. Never Before In A Conflict Has That Ever Happened, That During The Conflict Weapons Of Mass Destruction Are Taken Out Of The Zone Of Conflict. And Thank God We Did That, Because If We Hadn't Done That, Today Isil Would Have Those Chemical Weapons In Large Parts Of The Country.

Unlike Washington, Which Is Stuck In Ideological Gridlock, Americans Feel The Impact Of Climate Change In Their Own Hometowns And They Know Something Must Be Done.

I Actually Did Vote For The $87 Billion, Before I Voted Against It.

I Think The World Is Safer Without Iran With A Nuclear Weapon. The World Has Got The Potential To Be Safer If We Fully Implement The Paris Agreement.

Nuclear Weapons

So My Judgment Is That Syria Will Move; Syria Will Change, As It Embraces A Legitimate Relationship With The United States And The West And Economic Opportunity That Comes With It And The Participation That Comes With It.

America Deserves A Real Discussion About Real Policy.

I Think That Our Own Crisis Of Democracy Is In Its Own Way Affecting Our Ability To Leverage In The Same Way That We Used To In The World.

Think About This: Terrorism, Epidemics, Poverty, The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction-all Challenges That Know No Borders-the Reality Is That Climate Change Ranks Right Up There With Every Single One Of Them.

I Commanded A Naval Gunboat Patrolling The Mekong Delta. Then When I Came Home After Two Tours Of Duty, I Decided That The Same Sense Of Service Demanded Something More Of Me.

We Still Have A Lot Of Work To Do To Protect Our Own Democracy.

I Think That All Of The Cyber Attacks That Are Taking Place, But Particularly This - The Russian One, Had A Profound Impact On The American System, On Our Political Process, On Our - It Invaded The Space Of Our Election. The Releasing On A Regular Basis Of One Party's Stolen Emails Had An Impact, And I Think That Other Things Also Had An Impact.

I Have A Plan To Protect The Environment So That We Leave This Place In Better Shape To Our Children Than We Were Handed It By Our Parents.

It’s Time We Framed Every Question - Every Issue -- Not In Terms Of What’s In It For ‘me,’ But What’s In It For All Of Us?

This Fight Against Drilling In The Arctic Refuge Is A Fight About Our Principles. Its About Standing Up For Our Environment, Our Families And Our Future, And I Wont Give Up This Fight.

Strong Leadership Demands More Than The Willingness To Use Force. It Means Directing The Use Of The Right Tools At The Right Time For The Right Purpose And The Right Cause.

For Those Of Us Who Are Fortunate To Share An Irish Ancestry, We Take Great Pride In The Contributions That Irish-americans.

But I Can Tell You What I Believe: When Tens Of Thousands Of Innocent Souls Have Perished In Darfur-when 11 Million Children Are Without Health Insurance-when Our Colossal Debt Subjects Our Economic Future To The Whims Of Asian Bankers-no One Can Tell Me That Faith Demands This Senate Spend Its Time Arguing Over A Handful Of Judges. No One With Those Priorities Can Use My Faith To Intimidate Me.

If We Can't Have A Serious Conversation Without Politicizing It On Cable Tv And Making It A Scoring Point For One Day, We're In Trouble.

We Need A New Approach To National Security - A Bold, Progressive Internationalism That Stands In Stark Contrast To The Too Often Belligerent And Myopic Unilateralism Of The Bush Administration.

National Security

What We Americans Need To Do Is Respect That Incredible Blessing That We Have As A Nation And Make Sure That We Are Leading In The Best Ways Possible.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

Each And Every Child In This Country Is Valuable Because They Are Our Future As A Society. We Cannot Afford To Lose A Single Child To Ill-health, Under-education, Abuse, Addiction, Jail, Or Gun Violence. America's Highest Goal Should Be For Every Child To Grow Up To Be A Successful Young Adult -- Healthy, Educated, Free, Secure, And A Good Citizen.

I Want To Start By Saying Something Nice About President Bush. Of All The Presidents We've Had With The Last Name Of Bush, His Economic Plan Ranks In The Top Two.

I Believe America Is Safest And Strongest When We Are Leading The World And We Are Leading Strong Alliances.

American Can Do Better, And Help Is On The Way.

We Need To Guarantee Equal Rights And Civil Rights And Say That, Here In America, Workers Have The Right To Organize - Women Have The Right To Choose - And Justice Belongs To Everyone Regardless Of Race Or Gender Or Sexual Orientation.

At Every Step Of The Way, George W. Bush Has Put The Narrow Interests Of The Few Ahead Of The Interests Of Most Americans.

These Guys [republicans] Are The Most Crooked, You Know, Lying Group I've Ever Seen.

I Met With Many Of - A Number Of [syrian] Refugees In Berlin The Other Day, And I Was Struck By How Educated, Intelligent, And Patriotic They Are. They Want To Go Back. They Love Their Country. And There Are So Many Of Them Still In Jordan And In Refugee Camps In Lebanon And In Turkey, That If You Could Create The Climate Within Which They Could Begin To Come Back, I Believe There Is Such A History Of Secularism Within Syria, Even Tolerance Within Syria, That If We Can Deal With Isil, Yes. That's The Key. And With Isil There, Not A Chance.

Those Localized Efforts Take A Long Time And They Don't Deal With The Larger Issue Of Isil And The Question Of What You're Going To Do To Really Have A Solution Here. We Have To Save Syria.

[bashar] Assad Himself Has Said On Several Occasions Recently That If The People Of Syria Don't Believe I Should Be There In The Future, Then I Would Step - I Would Leave. He Has Said It. He Has, On Occasion, Hinted That He Wants A Political Settlement Of One Kind Or Another. I Think It's Up To His Supporters, His Strongest Supporters, To Make It Clear To Him That If You're Going To Save Syria, Assad Has Made A Set Of Choices - Barrel Bombing Children, Gassing His People, Torturing His People, Engaging In Starvation As A Tactic Of War.

We Were Sent To Vietnam To Kill Communism. But We Found Instead That We Were Killing Women And Children.

If You Want To Be A Jewish State And You Want To Remain A Democracy, You Have To Have A Two-state Solution.

We Need To Put Our Faith And Trust In The People On The Frontlines -- And Back It Up With Real Resources. We Need To Make Sure First Defenders Have The Gear And Support They Need, And The Benefits And Protections They've Earned. With New Technology And Ingenuity, By Doing More To Sustain Our First Defenders And Calling On Americans To Do More For Their Country, We Can Make Our Country Stronger, Safer, And More Secure.

Patriots Don't Go To Russia. They Don't Seek Asylum In Cuba. They Don't Seek Asylum In Venezuela. They Fight Their Cause Here. Edward Snowden Is A Coward. He Is A Traitor. And He Has Betrayed His Country. And If He Wants To Come Home Tomorrow To Face The Music, He Can Do So.

Under This [bush] Administration, America's Middle Class Has Been Abandoned -- Its Dreams Denied, Its Main Street Interests Ignored And Its Mainstream Values Scorned By A White House That Puts Privilege First.

The Fact Is That In Too Many Parts Of Our Country, We Still Have Discrimination. And Affirmative Action Is Not Just Something That Applies To People Of Color. Some People Have A Mistaken View Of It In America. It Also Is With Respect To Women, It's With Respect To Other Efforts To Try To Reach Out And Be Inclusive In Our Country.

Assassination, Kidnappings And Suicide Attacks Have Become Too Much The Standard Operating Procedure In The Islamic World. So Much So That The Name Of Islam Itself Has Been Diminished In The Eyes Of Many People. It Is The Responsibility Of All Of Us, And Particularly Those In The Islamic World Who Care About Their Religion, To Rescue It From Its Increased Association With Violence.

I Think That For Many Of Us, The Years Of The Civil Rights Movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy Running For President In 1968 To End The War And So Forth - These Were Defining Moment In Terms Of Trying To Hold Government Accountable And Have A Level Of Responsibility And Truth-telling.

The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

What We Need Now Is Not Just A Regime Change In Saddam Hussein And Iraq, But We Need A Regime Change In The United States.

I Think That Too Far, Too Much, To A Greater Degree Than Is Anywhere Near Appropriate, America And Our Politics Are Being Governed By More And More Powerful Interests, By Fewer And Fewer People In The Sense Of The Amount Of Money That Has Controlled Access And Other Kinds Of Things.

Our Military Is Overextended. Nine Out Of 10 Active-duty Army Divisions Are Either In Iraq, Going To Iraq Or Have Come Back From Iraq. One Way Or The Other, They're Wrapped Up In It.

I Believe That This President [george W. Bush], Regrettably, Rushed Us Into A War, Made Decisions About Foreign Policy, Pushed Alliances Away. And, As A Result, America Is Now Bearing This Extraordinary Burden Where We Are Not As Safe As We Ought To Be.

What Remains Unchanged Is The Principle, Which Is That We Do Not Launch Wars Without Overwelming Reasons, And Overwhelming Alliances, And Without Overwhelming Force.

I'm Not Going To Put My Energy Into Focusing On Things That Are Hypothetical That We Don't Know.

Climate Change Is Real. The Science Is Compelling. And The Longer We Wait, The Harder The Problem Will Be To Solve.

We Will Fight Anyone Who Wishes To Impose A Totalitarian System Upon A Free Society, And We Will Always Prevail. But We Will Not Do So With A Fear-stricken Administration Which Seeks To Deprive Us Of Freedoms In The Name Of 'defending' Us From The Terrorists, Who Also Seek To Deprive Us Of Our Freedoms.

George Bush's Vision Does Not Live Up To The America I Enlisted In The Navy To Defend, The America I Have Fought For In The Senate, And The America That I Hope To Lead As President.

We Don't Need A President Who Just Says, "gentlemen, Start Your Engines." We Need A President Who Says, America, Let's Start Our Economy And Put People Back To Work.

The Fact Is That You Literally, By Definition, Cannot Have A Jewish State And A Democratic State And Have A Whole Bunch Of Palestinians In It Who Are Living Under Military Rule While The Rest Of The Country Is Living Under Civil Rule, And They Have Different Rights And Different - It's Just Not A Democracy.

Those Who Deny The Science Or Choose Excuses Over Action Are Playing With Fire.

I Think, All In All, The Obama Administration And What President Obama Has Focused On Has Lived Up To Our Need To Protect American Interests, To Live Our Values And Assert Our Values, And To Stand Up For Future Generations.

The Hope Is There. The Sun Is Rising. Our Best Days Are Yet To Come.

We Have To Create A Process Which Has Legitimacy For The People Of Syria. And We Have To Have A Process Where The Russians And The Iranians And The Neighbors - All Of Them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, A Very Complicated Brew - That You Have To Bring Them Together And They Can Find Agreement. That's The Fundamental Premise Of The Geneva Communique That You Will Have, By Mutual Consent, A Process Of Transition.

It's One Thing To Be Certain, But You Can Be Certain And You Can Be Wrong.

Not To Wax Nostalgic About The 1970s, But Back Then People Got Upset When They Saw Injustice. They Got Tired Of Seeing Our Air, Land And Water Polluted. They Were Shocked When The Cuyahoga River In Ohio Was Polluted So Badly It Caught Fire. And On One Great Day 20 Million Americans Marched All Across This Land. Politicians Had No Choice But To Take Notice.

I Had A Chance To Talk With President [vladimir] Putin And He Clearly Said To Me Very Directly, "i Will Think About That. I Will Think About This Challenge Of How We Win." Look, This Is Not Easy For Putin. Everybody Says, "oh, Putin's Made A Big Move." Well, Putin Is [in Syria] Now; And If He Wants To Fight Isil Alone, That's A Challenge, Folks.

You Cannot Bring Peace In Syria As Long As [bashar] Assad Is, In Fact, There.

Sunni Are The Majority Of The [syria], 60 To 65 Percent. They've Been Ruled By [bashar] Assad, Who Represents A Minority Alawite Element, Which Is About 12, 13 Percent. And Because Of The Choices Assad Made, It's Very Difficult To See How You Resolve This Without Buy-in From The Sunni World.

The Consequences Of A Crime Should Not Be Out Of Proportion To The Crime Itself.

There Is Some Schedule Showing What You (need) To Do To Get Iraqis Standing Up And Defending Themselves Which Is Now Suddenly Beginning To Happen, So There Are Some Signs Of Progress.

American Soldiers [are] Going Into The Homes Of Iraqis In The Dead Of Night, Terrorizing Kids And Children, You Know, Women, Breaking Sort Of The Customs Of The ñ Of ñ The Historical Customs, Religious Customs.

I Do Think That It's Really Important For Leaders Of Countries To Be Very Clear And Careful In The Statements They Make Because Their Words Are Weighed Extremely Carefully By Other Countries, And You Have To Create A Continuity Of Seriousness And Of Credibility In Order To Be Able To Be Taken Seriously And Get Things Done.

Nafta Recognizes The Reality Of Today's Economy - Globalization And Technology. Our Future Is Not In Competing At The Low-level Wage Job; It Is In Creating High-wage, New Technology Jobs Based On Our Skills And Our Productivity.

If You Can Resolve This Transition Of [bashar] Assad, That Is Absolutely Possible, But You Have To Have A Clarity For Everybody About The Way Forward.

I Think The Question Of Abortion Is One That Should Be Left For The States To Decide.

There Should Be A Transatlantic Renaissance Between The Us And Europe Based On Shared Prosperity, Security, And Values.

Those Who Try To Stifle The Vibrancy Of Our Democracy And Shield Policies From Scrutiny Behind A False Cloak Of Patriotism Miss The Real Value Of What Our Troops Defend And How We Best Defend Our Troops. We Will Ask Questions And We Will Defend Our Democracy.

I Would Rather Be The Candidate Of The Naacp Than The Nra.

I Defended This Country As A Young Man, And I Will Defend It As President.

I’m Sick And Tired Of These Despicable Republican Attacks That Always Seem To Come From Those Who Never Can Be Found To Serve In War, But Love To Attack Those Who Did. I’m Not Going To Be Lectured By A Stuffed Suit White House Mouthpiece Standing Behind A Podium...

America Has Not Led But Fled On The Issue Of Global Warming.

George Bush Sold Us On Going To War With Iraq Based On The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction. But We Still Haven't Found Them.

Mass Destruction

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

It's Pretty Standard Fare In Political Discourse. You Misconstrue What Somebody Said. You Isolate A Statement, You Lend Your Interpretation To It And Then Feign Moral Outrage. And Democrats Have Been Doing It For Years.

I Don't Think Losing 3 Million Jobs, Having Deficits As Far As The Eye Can Go, Having 2 Million People Lose Their Health Insurance, Turning Your Back On Kids In Schools And Not Funding No Child Left Behind Represents A Vision.

I'm Glad The President Finally Found An Economic Development Program. I'm Just Sad That It's Only In Baghdad.

Ask Osama Bin Laden Is He Is Better Off Now Than He Was Four Years Ago.

Osama Bin Laden

The Military's Job Is To Win The War. A President's Job Is To Win The Peace.

What Is Happening Is Policy In Israel Is Being Driven By The Settlers Who Don't Support A Two-state Solution, Who Want Their Settlements To Prevent The Possibility Of Two States. They Openly Say That.

I Am Sympathetic To Developing Countries’ Concerns: Because Of Our Emissions It’s Their Crops That Will Disappear; Because Of Our Inaction, It’s Their Fields That Turn To Desert...

Developing Countries

No One Is Going To Question My Commitment To The Defence Of Our Nation. I Don't Know What It Is These Republicans, Who Didn't Serve In Any War, Have Against Those Of Us Who Are Democrats Who Did.

You Don't Value Families If You Force Them To Take Up A Collection To Buy Body Armor For A Son Or Daughter In The Service.

Here I Am In The State Of New Mexico. George Bush Is Still In The State Of Denial. New Mexico Has Five Electoral Votes. The State Of Denial Has None. I Like My Chances.

I Believe It Is Both Unwise And Even Wrong To Interfere In The Affairs Of Other Nations. Indeed, If We Are Honest, We Will See That This Is One Of The Reasons For 9-11.

You Can't Play Sports Without Losing Sometimes And, In Losing, You Learn Something About Grace And How To Act Under Pressure.

I Will Never Cede The Authority Of Our Country Or Our Security To Any Other Nation. I'll Never Give A Veto Over American Security To Any Other Entity - Not A Nation, Not A Country, Not An Institution.

How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die In Vietnam? How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die For A Mistake?

The Russians Need To Understand That You Cannot Have Peace [in Syria] Unless You Resolve The Question Of Sunni Buy-in.

I Know There Are A Lot Of Musicians And A Lot Of Artists, And There Are A Lot Of Writers And Other People Who Inspire Young People, But I'd Like To See Somebody In Political Life Be Able To Connect And Make These Choices That We Need To Make In Washington Real In Terms Of People's Lives.

An Old American Patriot Described Today’s Situation Very Well. As America Fought For Its Independence, Benjamin Franklin Said, “we Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.”

I Have Confidence In My Campaign. I Have Assembled A Great Team That Is Going To Beat George W. Bush, And Any Rumors To The Contrary Are Completely Erroneous.

We Need To Talk To All The Players In The Middle East, Not Because We Agree With Them, But Because They Play A Role.

I'm Motivated By My Passion For Our Basic Values, Protecting Our Interests, And For Protecting The Future.

As President, I Will Not Be The Last To Know What Is Going On In My Command.

You Just Don't Invade Another Country On Phony Pretext In Order To Assert Your Interests!

Where Are They Now That We, The Men Whom They Sent Off To War, Have Returned? These Are Commanders Who Have Deserted Their Troops, And There Is No More Serious Crime In The Law Of War. The Army Says They Never Leave Their Wounded. The Marines Say They Never Leave Even Their Dead. These Men Have Left All The Casualties And Retreated Behind A Pious Shield Of Public Rectitude. They Have Left The Real Stuff Of Their Reputation Bleaching Behind Them In The Sun In This Country.

I'm Going To Be A President Who Believes In Science.

I Accept That Friends Of Ours Have Decided That The President's Non-strike Has Somehow Impacted Perceptions Of Us. But I Believe They Are Dead Wrong And I Think The Critics Are Dead Wrong, And Here's Why. The President [barack Obama] Made His Decision To Strike. He Announced His Decision To Strike Publicly. And The Purpose Of The Strike Was To Get The Chemical Weapons Out Of Syria. That's The Purpose.

In American Elections There Are No Losers, Because Whether Or Not Our Candidates Win Or Lose, The Next Morning We Wake Up As Americans.

The Race For The White House Should Be About Leadership, And Leadership Requires That One Help Heal The Wounds Of Vietnam, Not Reopen Them.

I Don't Want To Claim That God Is On Our Side. As Abraham Lincoln Told Us, I Want To Pray Humbly That We Are On God's Side.

Mitt Romney Says He Believes In America And That He Will Restore American Exceptionalism. I Have News For Him, We Already Have An Exceptional American As President And We Believe In Barack Obama.

Jesus Did Not Help Just The Sick Who Could Afford To Pay For It.

I Personally Didn't See Personal Atrocities In The Sense I Saw Somebody Cut A Head Off Or Something Like That. However, I Did Take Part In Free-fire Zones, I Did Take Part In Harassment And Interdiction Fire, I Did Take Part In Search-and-destroy Missions.

We Must Recognize That There Is No Indication That Saddam Hussein Has Any Intention Of Relenting. So We Have An Obligation Of Enormous Consequence, An Obligation To Guarantee That Saddam Hussein Cannot Ignore The United Nations. He Cannot Be Permitted To Go Unobserved And Unimpeded Toward His Horrific Objective Of Amassing A Stockpile Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

Guarantees That

We Do Not Need More Division. We Certainly Do Not Need Something As Complex And Emotional As Vietnam Reduced To Simple Campaign Rhetoric.

My Definition Of Patriotism Is To Defend Your Country With The Truth, No Matter The Consequences.

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