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As You Probably Know, Some American Politicians And American Journalists Refer To Washington, Dc As The "capital Of The Free World." But It Seems To Me That Brussels, Which Boasts 1,000 Years Of History And Which Serves As The Capital Of Belgium, The Home Of The European Union, And The Headquarters For Nato, This City Has Its Own Legitimate Claim To That Title.

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Joe Biden

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As You Probably Know, Some American Politicians And American Journalists Refer To Washington, Dc As The "capital Of The Free World." But It Seems To Me That Brussels, Which Boasts 1,000 Years Of History And Which Serves As The Capital Of Belgium, The Home Of The European Union, And The Headquarters For Nato, This City Has Its Own Legitimate Claim To That Title.

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An Abusive Relationship Is Worse Than Being In Prison. I Mean Literally, Not Figuratively.

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Banning Guns Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

I'm Not Running Like Colonel [bernie] Sanders. All Reputations Matter.

We Have The Greatest Resource Universities In The World, The Only Place In The World. We Have The Most Productive Workforce In The World. We Have The Most Agile Venture Capitalists In The World. We Have A Situation Where Right Now In The United States Of America, We Are Near Energy Independent. North America Is Beginning To Be The Epicenter Of Energy. What Is It That Makes People Think That This Is Not Going To Be The American Century? I Don't Get It.

The Number One Job Facing The Middle Class. And It Happens To Be, As Barack Says, A Three-letter Word: Jobs. J-o-b-s.

How I Learned To Love The New World Order.

World Government

I Think It Is Manmade. I Think It's Clearly Manmade. If You Don't Understand What The Cause Is, It's Virtually Impossible To Come Up With A Solution. We Know What The Cause Is. The Cause Is Manmade. That's The Cause. That's Why The Polar Icecap Is Melting.

I Must Express My Protest Against Continually Increasing The Debt Without Taking Positive Steps To Slow Its Growth.

No Matter How You Cut It, This Real Debate On Personal Accounts Is About The Legitimacy Of Social Security; It's Not About The Solvency Of Social Security.

I Believe At Its Core We Have A Constitution, As Our Supreme Court's First Great Justice, Marshall, Said In 1819, And I Quote, "intended To Endure For The Ages To Come And Consequently To Be Adapted To The Various Crises Of Human Affairs."

It's A Simple Proposition To Us: Everyone Is Entitled To Adequate Medical Health Care. If You Call That A 'redistribution Of Income' -- Well, So Be It. I Don't Call It That. I Call It Just Being Fair -- Giving The Middle Class Taxpayers An Even Break That The Wealthy Have Been Getting.

It Is My View That We Cannot Conduct Foreign Policy At The Extremes.

Senator John Stennis: The Civil Rights Movement Did More To Free The White Man That The Black Man. ... It Freed My Soul.

Mike Dukakis? He's The Salt Of The Earth.

Salt Of The Earth

Mr. Trump's A Good Man, But He Doesn't Know Much About The Health Care System.

It Is The Most Vicious Of All Crimes - To Be Abused By Someone You Had A Relationship With! Because Then You Blame Yourself.

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