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John McCain
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I Believe We're All Aware That There Are People And Organizations Throughout The World Who Are Bent On Destroying America, Everything We Stand For And Inflicting Harm On American Citizens. It Is The Obligation Of The President Of The United States To Respond To Those. I Believe, I Must Add, That This Adminstration For The Last Seven Months Has Neglected Compelling National Security Threats Besides This ... I Hope That The President Will Not Confine His Activities To Just This.
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All Interested Parties Must Be Willing To Make Significant Sacrifices.
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I've Been An Imperfect Servant Of My Country For Many Years. But I Have Been Her Servant First, Last And Always. And I've Never Lived A Day, In Good Times Or Bad, That I Didn't Thank God For The Privilege.
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How Does It Make Sense To Remove An Option, To Tell Your Enemy Before You Go Into A Conflict, That You Will Not Exercise Whatever Options Are Necessary In Order To Achieve Victory?
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I Think Conventional Wisdom Is That Time Is Not On Our Side. But There Are A Number Of Members Of Congress Who Have Primaries And When Those Primaries Are Done, They May Be More Inclined To Address The Issue Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
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We Make The Future Better Than The Past. We Don't Hide From History. We Make History.
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Now That We Have The Line-item Veto There Is No Excuse For Congress To Put Pork In And No Reason For The President Not To Line-item Veto It Out.
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The President(obama) Comparing Him To A Kid In The Back Of A Classroom, I Think, Is Very Indicative Of The President's Lack Of Appreciation Of Who Vladimir Putin Is. He's An Old Kgb Colonel That Has No Illusions About Our Relationship, Does Not Care About A Relationship With The United States, Continues To Oppress His People, Continues To Act In An Autocratic Fashion.
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Immigration And Border Security Remain Critical Issues That I Am Committed To Addressing This Year. The Good News Is That Illegal Immigration Is At An All-time Low, Making Now The Time To Dedicate The Needed Technology And Resources To Finally Secure The Border For Good. As Border Security Improves, I Look Forward To Working In A Bipartisan Manner To Fix Our Broken Immigration System And Address The Millions Of People Living In The United States Outside Of Legal Status.
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I Don't Know How You Defeat An Insurgency Unless You Have Some Handle On The Number Of People That You Are Facing.
Numbers
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...(w)e Lose When By Official Policy Or By Official Negligence We Allow, Confuse Or Encourage Our Soldiers To Forget . . . That Which Is Our Greatest Strength: That We Are Different And Better Than Our Enemies.
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Different
Unfortunately, Governor Bush Is A Pat Robertson Republican Who Will Lose To Al Gore.
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Republican
Governors
We Know That Medicare's Going Broke In Seven Years, But We Need To Start Over. That's What The American People Want Us To Do.
Years
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Starting Over
I Appreciate The Decision Made By Gov. Brewer To Veto This Legislation. I Hope That We Can Now Move On From This Controversy And Assure The American People That Everyone Is Welcome To Live, Work And Enjoy Our Beautiful State Of Arizona.
Beautiful
Moving
Gay
That Does Not Mean We Won't Experience The Tragedy Of The Loss Of Some American Lives. We Will Have An Opportunity To Instill A Democracy In Iraq Which Will Be An Example And Perhaps Force Other Nations In That Region To Move In The Same Direction.
Moving
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After All This Time And All This, Quote, "experience," How Is She [hillary Clinton] Not Better At This [military]?
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I Think It's A Very Legitimate Aspect Of American Life To Criticize And To Disagree And To Debate. But I Want To Say I Think It's A Lie To Say That The President Lied To The American People. I Sat On The Robb-silverman Commission. I Saw Many, Many Analysts That Came Before That Committee. I Asked Every One Of Them-i Said, 'did-were You Ever Pressured Politically Or Any Other Way To Change Your Analysis Of The Situation As You Saw?' Every One Of Them Said No.
Lying
Thinking
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That's Joe Biden Right There - Unbowed, Unbroken And Unable To Stop Talking.
Talking
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Unbroken
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I Have Campaigned For Reform Efforts All Over The Country, ... What Happens In California Has Significant Effect In States Like Mine That Are Nearby. It's Just A Reality.
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Reality
California
(obama) Really Has No Experience Or Knowledge Or Judgment About The Issue Of Iraq And He Has Wanted To Surrender For A Long Time.
Iraq
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You Know That Old Beach Boys Song, Bomb Iran? Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
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I Have No Rancor. I Look Forward, Not Backwards.
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Backwards
Americans Have Got To Understand That We Are Paying Present-day Retirees With The Taxes Paid By Young Workers In America Today. And That's A Disgrace. It's An Absolute Disgrace And It's Got To Be Fixed.
America
Today
Fixed
I Guarantee You, As President Of The United States, I Know How To Heal The Wounds Of War, I Know How To Deal With Our Adversaries, And I Know How To Deal With Our Friends.
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Heal
The Russians Are Succeeding In Continuing Their Dismemberment Of Ukraine, They're Succeeding In Exerting Enormous Influence In The Middle East, Which They Never Had Before. They Are Succeeding - They Have Succeeded In Interfering With Our Election, And We Know That They Continue That In The French Elections And Other Elections. And So Far They Have Paid A Little Or No Penalty For All Of This Misbehavior.
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We Are An Unfinished Nation.
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I Think My Major Challenge, Very Frankly, Is To Maintain The Traction, ... I've Seen Many Campaigns Here In The State Of New Hampshire Look Good For A While, And Then The Air Comes Out Of The Balloon.
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Torture Doesn't Work.
Torture
I Think They Put Some Lipstick On A Pig, But It's Still A Pig.
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We Know For A Fact The Russians Tried To Change The Outcome Of Our Election, Attacking The Very Fundamental Of Democracy. We Know They Did That. We Need To Know How, We Need To Know Why, And Most Of All We Need To Know What To Do To Prevent This Kind Of Activity, Which They Continue To Carry On In Free Nations Around The World.
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There's Going To Be Other Wars. I'm Sorry To Tell You, There's Going To Be Other Wars. We Will Never Surrender, But There Will Be Other Wars.
Sorry
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I Disagree With What The Majority Of The American People Want.
People
Majority
Want
There Are 11 Million People Living In The Shadows. I Believe They Deserve To Come Out Of The Shadows. The Children Who Are Brought Here When They Were Children, They Deserve That Kind Of Consideration As Well.
Children
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Neither Party Should Be Defined By Pandering To The Outer Reaches Of American Politics And The Agents Of Intolerance, Whether They Be Louis Farrakhan And Al Sharpton On The Left, Or Pat Robertson Or Jerry Falwell On The Right.
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A Man I Admire And Respect - Congressman John Lewis, An American Hero, Made Allegations That Sarah Palin And I Were Somehow Associated With The Worst Chapter In American History, Segregation, Deaths Of Children In Church Bombings, George Wallace. That, To Me, Was So Hurtful.
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Bills
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Aliens
Crime
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Partners
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I Would Vote For A Muslim If He Or She Was The Best Candidate Able To Lead The Country And Defend Our Political Values.
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Why Am I Running For President? Well, My Wife, Cindy, Says It Is Because I Sustainedseveral Severe Blows To The Head In Prison Camp.
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I Campaigned In 2012 All Over This Country For Months: 'repeal And Replace Obamacare.' That Was Not The Mandate Of The Voters. If They Wanted To Repeal Obamacare, The 2012 Election Would Have Been Probably Significantly Different.
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Different
Everybody Says That They're Against The Special Interests. I'm The Only One The Special Interests Don't Give Any Money To.
Giving
Special
Interest
At No Time Have I Ever Done Anything That Would Betray The Public Trust.
Done
Betray
Public Trust
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Attention
Pay
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Trying
In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations.
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21st Century
Nations
I Love The Veterans. And I'll Take Care Of Them. And They Know That I'll Take Care Of Them. And That's Going To Be My Job. But, Also, I Have The Ability, And The Knowledge, And The Background To Make The Right Judgments, To Keep America Safe And Secure.
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Judgment
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I Was Concerned About A Couple Of Steps That The Russian Government Took In The Last Several Days. One Was Reducing The Energy Supplies To Czechoslovakia.
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There Is No Doubt In My Mind That Rudy Giuliani In The Senate Will Be A Leader For The People Of New York But Also For The People Of Arizona And The People All Over This Country.
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Democrat
Withdrawing
I Do Believe My View Has Evolved.
Believe
Views
Senator Obama Voted Against Justice Breyer And Justice Roberts On The Grounds That They Didn't Meet His Ideological Standards. That's Not The Way We Should Judge These Nominees. Elections Have Consequences.
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I'm Just Trying To Keep Things Normal Around The House, Because There's No Reason Why Things Shouldn't Be Normal.
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The Core Political Values Of Our Free Society Are So Deeply Embedded In Our Collective Consciousness That Only A Few Malcontents, Lunatics Generally, Ever Dare To Threaten Them.
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Because The People Of New Hampshire Take Their Responsibilities As Citizens Of The Republic Seriously, They Keep It Interesting For Candidates Who, Believe It Or Not, Can Get A Little Tired Of The Mannered, Predictable, And Unimaginative Qualities That Typically Afflict Modern Political Campaigns.
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Tired
Responsibility
Iraq Is Now The Central Front In The War Against Al-qaeda.
War
Iraq
Als
Russia Has Now Become A Nation Fueled By Petro-dollars That Is Basically A Kgb Apparatchik-run Government.
Americans Want To Win; Bin Laden Thinks He's Winning Now.
Winning
Thinking
Want
We Send Cruise Missiles And Then We Think Everything's All Right Or We Try To Bring Them To Trial. My Friends, This Time They've Gone Too Far. This Time We're Serious. This Time We Won't Quit Until They Are Gone, Completely Gone From The Face Of The Earth
Memorial Day
Thinking
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But I'm Still A Work In Progress. My Mother Calls Me Quite Frequently With Various Critiques Of My Performance On Tv And Other Public Events. She's Usually Pretty Severe With Her Comments.
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Events
Our Economy, I Think, Is Still -- The Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Strong.
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Thinking
Fundamentals
Conservatives Came To Office To Reduce The Size Of Government And Enlarge The Sphere Of Free And Private Initiative. But Lately We Have Increased Government In Order To Stay In Office. And, Soon, If We Don't Remember Why We Were Elected We Will Have Lost Our Office Along With Our Principles, And Leave A Mountain Of Debt That Our Children's Grandchildren Will Suffer From Long After We Have Departed This Earth. Because, My Friends, Hypocrisy Is The Most Obvious Of Sins, And The People Will Punish It.
Children
Government
Order
...sound Foreign Policy Is More Than Arms Control, Foreign Aid And Paying (united Nations) Dues.
Sound
Arms
Aids
Rogue States Are The Main Threat To Peace And Freedom, And They Require A Strong, Comprehensive Policy Response - A Policy That I Call 'rogue State Rollback,' In Which Our Goal Is Not Simply To Contain Rogue Regimes, But To Drive Them From Power.
Strong
Goal
Rogues
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Borders
Workers
Events Are Moving Fast In My Campaign, And Yes, It's True That This Morning I've Dismissed My Entire Team Of Senior Advisers. All Of Their Positions Will Now Be Held By A Man Named 'joe The Plumber.'
Senior
Morning
Team
You Hear It Every Four Years, ... Scare The Seniors, Scare The Seniors.
Senior
Years
Scare
You May Have Noticed That Senator Obama’s Supporters Have Been Saying Some Pretty Nasty Things About Western Pennsylvania Lately. And You Know, I Couldn’t Agree With Them More.
Pennsylvania
May
Nasty
I Was An Addict. That's Why, ... I Tell You, Addiction Is A Very Cunning Enemy.
Addiction
Enemy
Cunning
Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.
Pain
War
Ideas
We Need Not Risk Our National Honor To Prevail In This Or Any War.
War
Risk
Honor
Efforts To Bring About Democracy Have Hit A Wall And Are Going Backwards.
Wall
Democracies Have
Effort
I Believe In Evolution. But I Also Believe, When I Hike The Grand Canyon And See It At Sunset, That The Hand Of God Is There Also.
Believe
Sunset
Hands
The 'main Street' Retailers ... See Customers Come To The Store To Locate Items ... Only To Leave And Order The Items Over The Internet Just To Escape The Sales Tax.
Order
Internet
Main Street
We Ought To Pay Down The National Debt, ... The American People Are Tired Of People Who Make Promises About Cutting Taxes That They Cannot Keep.
Tired
Cutting
People
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Issues
Giving
I Have Said Many Times In The Past I Don't Choose To Be Vice President, Either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian Or Vegetarian.
Past
President
Vices
It's Pretty Clear We Have Enough Guard People In The United States, But Are They Capable Of Handling Our Oversees Commitments As Well? We Need To Figure Out How That Impacts Our Ability In Iraq.
Commitment
Impact
Iraq
I Am Proud To Do So For I Know That By Supporting George W. Bush, I Serve My Country Well.
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Proud
Wells
We Conservatives Can Win The Ideological Battles On A Level Playing Field. Our Ideas Are Better. Given Fair Elections Based On Contributions From Regular Voters, Instead Of $100,000 Checks From Business-as-usual Special Interests, We Will Prevail.
Winning
Ideas
Special
America Has The Strongest, Best-trained, Best-led Military Force In The World, And We Have Failed Them. Our Military Today Is Struggling In Virtually Every Category That Measures Preparedness.
Military
Struggle
America
There's A Misnomer That Hillary Clinton Is As Hawkish As I Am, Basically.
Clinton
I Take A Backseat To No One In My Affection, Respect And Devotion To Veterans. And I Will Not Accept From Senator Obama, Who Did Not Feel It Was His Responsibility To Serve Our Country In Uniform, Any Lectures On My Regard For Those Who Did.
Country
Responsibility
Uniforms
The Cable Industry Has Risen To New Heights In Their Apparent Willingness And Ability To Gouge The American Consumer. Cable Rates [have] Increased An Unbelievable Five-and-a-half Times Faster Than Inflation.
Half Time
Height
Faster
I Hate The Gooks. I Will Hate Them As Long As I Live.
Hate
Long
I Hate
What I Don't Know Is What The Unexpected Might Be.
Silly
Might
Conservative
It's Not Social Issues I Care About.
Issues
Care
Social
We Have A Lot Of Work To Do And I‘m Afraid That It‘s A Very Hard Struggle, Particularly Given The Situation On The Iraq/pakistan Border.
Stupid
Struggle
Silly
I Cannot In Good Conscience Vote In Favor Of Tax Cuts, Irrespective Of Their Size, Or To Which Segment Of The Population They Are Targeted. Nor Can I Support Any Spending Increases That Are Not Related To Improving Our Nation's Defense From The Obvious And Serious Threats Facing Us Today.
Cutting
Support
Population
The Role Of The Vice President Is To Break Ties In The Senate And Inquire Daily Into The Health Of The President.
Ties
President
Vices
I 'don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.
Matter
Gas
Knows
It's A Tough Path To Citizenship. You've Got To Pay Back Taxes. You've Got To Learn English. You've Got To Have A Clear Record. You've Got To Get To The Back Of The Line Behind Other People Who Have Come Here Legally Or Even Waiting Legally.
People
Waiting
Pay
Inexperience Because Of (president Barack) Obama's Inexperience.look That Would Be One Of The Challenges.
Challenges
President
Inexperience
I'm Not Surprised That Governor Dean Would Oppose [the $87 Billion To Fund Iraq Reconstruction].... I've Lost Confidence That He Has Any Understanding Of The National Security Responsibilities Of A President... [b]ecause I Don't Believe That He Has Any Understanding Of The International Role That The United States Has To Play In The World. I Think It's A Kind Of A Pseudo-isolationism That Appeals To The Base Of The Caucus Voters. I Do Not Believe That Particularly In The Case Of Iraq That Governor Dean Has Any Fundamental Understanding Of What's At Stake Here.
Believe
Responsibility
Thinking
I, 100 Percent Don't Think That's Where The American People At, Because When There's Viral Pictures As A Baby Is In Aleppo With, You Know, Rubble All Over Them Going Viral, And Then There Are Celebrities Tweeting Why Haven't We Done Nothing About This? And Like, Oh, There Are Actually Many People For Years Who've Been Trying To Send Aid Then And This President Won't Let Us.
Baby
Thinking
Years
I Am A Republican. I'm Loyal To The Party Of Abraham Lincoln And Theodore Roosevelt. And I Believe That My Party, In Some Ways, Has Strayed From Those Principles, Particularly On The Issue Of Fiscal Discipline.
Party
Believe
Issues
In The 2012 Election, Obamacare, As It's Called, And I'll Be More Polite - The Aca ...was A Major Issue In The Campaign. I Campaigned All Over America For Two Months, Everywhere I Could. And In Every Single Campaign Rally I Said, 'we Have To Repeal And Replace Obamacare.' Well, The People Spoke. They Spoke, Much To My Dismay, But They Spoke. And They Reelected The President Of The United States.
Leadership
Party
Health
Being Chairman Of The Senate Commerce Committee Is Like Being A Mosquito In A Nudist Colony.
Mosquitoes
Nudists
Committees
Even In This Room Full Of Proud Manhattan Democrats. I Can't Shake That Feeling That Some People Here Are Pulling For Me ... I'm Delighted To See You Here Tonight, Hillary.
People
Feelings
Tonight
Many Of The Countries Outpacing The United States In The Deployment Of High Speed Internet Services, Including Canada, Japan And South Korea, Have Successfully Combined Municipal Systems With Privately Deployed Networks To Wire Their Countries, .. As A Country, We Cannot Afford To Cut Off Any Successful Strategy If We Want To Remain Internationally Competitive.
Country
Cutting
Successful
Thank God For The Saudis And Prince Bandar, And For Our Qatari Friends.
Thank God
Saudis
Under My Plan, 85 Percent Of America Will Pay No Tax Or Have A Flat Tax At Our Lowest Rate Of 15 Percent.
America
Pay
Flat Tax
I Have Said From The Beginning That Pat Buchanan Left The Republican Party The Day He Questioned America's Involvement In Defeating Nazi Germany.
Party
America
Germany
We've Got To Start Also Holding People Accountable, And We've Got To Reward People Who Succeed. But Somehow In Washington Today - And I'm Afraid On Wall Street - Greed Is Rewarded, Excess Is Rewarded, And Corruption - Or Certainly Failure To Carry Out Our Responsibility Is Rewarded.
Wall
Responsibility
People
America's Image Throughout The World Is Very Bad.
America
World
And The People Who Live In The Southern Part Of My State Do Not Have A Secure Environment. To Wit, There Are Signs That The Government Put Up That Say, "warning. You Are In A Drug Smuggling Area And A Human Smuggling Area."
Government
People
Southern
Reducing Military Presence Has Never In History Won A War.
Military
War
Reducing
Improve Human Intelligence To Get Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden
Bin Laden
Humans
In The Washington Soft Money Game, Big Business And Big Labor Are Accomplices Working Together To Protect The Mushy Middle Of Big Government, With Plenty Of Special Interest Plums: Big Unions Get Big Spending And Big Business Gets Corporate Welfare And Special Tax Breaks - All At The Expense Of Average Americans.
Government
Average
Games
Suppose That Climate Change Is Not Real And All We Do Is Adopt Green Technologies, Which Our Economy And Our Technology Is Perfectly Capable Of. Then All We've Done Is Given Our Kids A Cleaner World.
Real
Kids
Technology
Thousands Of Americans Have Given Their Lives In Afghanistan And Iraq Upholding Their Oaths And Defending This Nation. Chelsea Manning Broke Her Oath And Made It More Likely That Others Would Join The Ranks Of Her Fallen Comrades. Her Prison Sentence May End In A Few Months' [time], But Her Dishonor Will Last Forever.
Iraq
Forever
May
I Think There [are] Great Economies That Can Be Made Starting With A Round Of Base Closings, ... I Want The President To Veto These Pork-barrel Spending Bills Which Have Grown To Incredible Obscene Levels. I Believe There Are A Number Of Weapons Systems That Have To Be Eliminated.
Believe
Thinking
Numbers
I've Seen Enough Killing In My Life. I Know How Precious Human Life Is And I Don't Need A Lecture From You.
Needs
Lectures
Life Is
The Smartest Person In The United States Senate, And He Knows It, Is John Sununu. Thank God He Had His Mother's Temperament.
Mother
Thank God
United States
This Kind Of Horror Has Become All Too Familiar To Us. As Parents, Cindy And I Offer Our Prayers To The Memory Of The Slain Children And Ask That God Ease The Pain Of Littleton's Suffering Families, ... The Students Of Columbine High School And Children Everywhere Have A Basic Right To Learn In An Environment Free Of Fear And Violence. We Must Redouble Our Efforts To See That This Is A Reality.
Prayer
Children
Pain
We Will Have To Wait A Little Longer To See If Armageddon Has Arrived.
Waiting
Littles
Armageddon
As Long As There Is A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.
War
Long
Working Together
I Don't Use Coarse Language Very Often. I Have A Larger Vocabulary Than That.
Vocabulary
Use
Language
Both Candidates In This Election [2004] Pledge To End This War And Bring Our Troops Home. The Great Difference - The Great Difference Is That I Intend To Win It First.
War
Home
Winning
I Can Only Express Satisfaction That The Dear Leader Is Joining The Likes Of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, And Stalin In A Warm Corner Of Hell.
Leader
Gaddafi
Joining
I Think We Need To Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions. But I Try To Get Involved In Issues Where I See A Legislative Result... So I Just Leave The Issue Alone Because I Don't See A Way Through It, And There Are Certain Fundamentals, For Example Nuke Power, That People On The Left Will Never Agree With Me On. So Why Should I Waste My Time When I Know The People On The Left Are Going To Reject Nuclear Power?
Thinking
Issues
People
Only A Fool Or A Fraud Talks Tough Or Romantically About War.
War
Fool
Tough
There's A Whole Generation That's Retiring. It Is Unconscionable That The Average Salary Of A Lawyer Is $79,000 A Year And The Average Salary Of A Teacher Is $39,000 A Year.
Teacher
Average
Years
The Issue Of Economics Is Not Something I've Understood As Well As I Should. I've Got Greenspan's Book.
Book
Issues
Economics
It's Very Clear That Vladimir Putin Has Decided That He Will Eliminate His Opponents And Anyone Who Stands Up For Democracy And Freedom. And He Does So With Relative Impunity.
Democracy
Doe
Opponents
I Am Sure That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President. I Have No Doubt That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President.
Doubt
President
Clinton
I've Already Heard From Some Military Commanders Who Feel They've Been Undercut By The Vice President Of The United States, And There's A Lot Of Justification For Their View.
Military
Views
President
My Greatest Fear Is The Iranians Acquire A Nuclear Weapon And Give It To A Terrorist Organization. And There Is A Real Threat Of Them Doing That.
Real
Greatest Fear
Organization
I Believe That We're Going To Find Out That America Made A Lot Of Mistakes Diplomatically, Economically, Militarily, Intel-wise. But, I Also Think We're Going To Find Out The U.s. Has Done A Lot Of Good Things Too.
Wise
Mistake
Believe
What If There's Another Terrorist Attack? I Cringe At The Ideas Of Our Enemies Watching This, Knowing Much Like The President We Have Now. You Can Do Anything You Want, You Can Jerk Us Around, You Can Harass Our Naval Ships The Way Iran Is Doing Right Now, And We're Not Going To Do Anything. We're Not Going To React.
Iran
Ideas
Knowing
Torture Gives You Reliable And Unreliable Information. That's The Reason Why Most People In The World Don't Do It. So This Idea That You Have To Torture People In Order To Protect National Security Is A False Argument, And I Reject It.
Order
Ideas
Giving
The Way You Have Bipartisan Negotiations, You Sit Down Across The Table, As We Did With Ted Kennedy, As I've Done With Many Other Members, And You Say, 'ok, Here's What I Want, Here's What You Want. We'll Adhere To Your Principles, But We'll Make Concessions.'
Principles
Done
Tables
We Have Many Advantages In The Fight Against Global Warming, But Time Is Not One Of Them. Instead Of Idly Debating The Precise Extent Of Global Warming, Or The Precise Timeline Of Global Warming, We Need To Deal With The Central Facts Of Rising Temperatures, Rising Waters, And All The Endless Troubles That Global Warming Will Bring. We Stand Warned By Serious And Credible Scientists Across The World That Time Is Short And The Dangers Are Great. The Most Relevant Question Now Is Whether Our Own Government Is Equal To The Challenge.
Fighting
Government
Water
I Am Not President Bush.
President
President Bush
I Want To Emphasis Again, Governor (thomas) Kean And Congressman (lee) Hamilton Pointed Out That Congressional Oversight Also Was A Major Contributor To Our Failures Prior To 9/11 And That Has To Be Fixed As Well.
Want
Hamilton
Fixed
Cindy And I Are Adoptive Parents. We Know What A Treasure And Joy It Is To Have An Adopted Child In Our Lives.
Children
Joy
Parent
I Think That Decisions Should Rest In The Hands Of The States. I'm A Federalist.
Thinking
Hands
Decision
Right Now There’s Kind Of A Generational Change. Young Americans Do Not Trust This Government. Without Trusting Government You Can't Do A Lot Of Things.
Government
Without Trust
Americans Have Gotten To Know Sarah Palin. They Know That She's A Role Model To Women And Other - And Reformers All Over America. She's A Reformer.
America
Role Models
Roles
While Secretary Rumsfeld And I Have Had Our Differences, He Deserves Americans' Respect And Gratitude For His Many Years Of Public Service.
Gratitude
Years
Differences
I Think That It Has To Be A Very Humane Approach To This Issue, And We Have To Come Up With Solutions To It. But We Also Have To Do Something About The Drugs That Are Coming Across Our Southern Border That Are Killing Our Kids... I Think There Are Some People Who Want To Leave This Country And Return To The Country They Came From, But Obviously It Requires A Broader Solution That That, And We All Know That.
Country
Kids
Thinking
Do You Know Why Chelsea Clinton Is So Ugly? Because Janet Reno Is Her Father.
Father
Ugly
Clinton
Russia Is A Gas Station Masquerading As A Country. It's Kleptocracy, It's Corruption, It's A Nation That's Really Only Dependent Upon Oil And Gas For Their Economy.
Country
Money
Reality
Parents Are Not The All-knowing, Ideal People We Would Like You To Think We Are. We've Made Wrong Choices Before, And Will Again, Like Everyone Else, .. But Our Mistakes Are Not The Measure Of Our Love For You. You Are That Measure, And How Well You Are Prepared To Make Better Choices Than We Have Made.
Mistake
Thinking
Knowing
It's The Only Way That I See That It Can Be Done," Mccain Said. "obviously, It Has Failed In The Past, But I Also Notice There Is A Somewhat Changed Attitude On The Part Of The American People About This Issue.
Attitude
Past
Issues
[several Candidates Talked Of Problems With The Federal Medicare System, Particularly Concerns About Whether It Would Cover Prescription Drug Costs In The Future.] We're Asking Senior Citizens To Make A Choice Between Their Health And Their Income, ... Medicare Is Probably The Most Difficult Challenge We Face In The Next Century, Because It Has A Lot To Do With Other Things Besides Money.
Senior
Choices
Challenges
When You Have Airplanes With Precision Weapons, Striking Hospitals In Aleppo And Slaughtering Innocent Men, Women And Children, You're Committing A War Crime. So We Need More Sanctions Against Russia. We Should Not Relax Them.
Children
War
Airplane
My Reading Of The Threat From Iran Is That If Iran Acquires Nuclear Weapons, It Is An Existential Threat To The State Of Israel And To Other Countries In The Region Because The Other Countries In The Region Will Feel Compelling Requirement To Acquire Nuclear Weapons As Well. Now We Cannot A Second Holocaust.
Country
Reading
Holocaust
It's Always The Wacko Birds On Right And Left That Get The Media Megaphone.
Memorable
Media
Bird
I Say To Our Enemies: We Are Coming. God May Have Mercy On You, But We Won't
Memorial Day
Enemy
May
The American People Want Us To Stop Spending. And So Let's Just Give Them Some Certainty. Let's Extend The Tax - The Existing Tax Cuts. And Then Let's Give Some More Tax Breaks To Small Businesses And Large. And Then Maybe The American People Will Have Some Confidence.
Confidence
Cutting
People
Major League Baseball Players And Owners Should Meet Immediately To Enact The Standards That Apply To The Minor Leagues, And If They Don't, I Will Have To Introduce Legislation That Says Professional Sports Will Have Minimum Standards For Testing. I'll Give Them Until January, And Then I'll Introduce Legislation.
Sports
Baseball
Player
Our Armed Forces Will Fight For Peace In Iraq, A Peace Built On More Secure Foundations Than Are Found Today In The Middle East. Even More Important, They Will Fight For Two Human Conditions Of Even Greater Value Than Peace: Liberty And Justice.
Fighting
Two
Iraq
The Last Thing Members Of The Committee Want To Do Is Pass Legislation.
Want
Lasts
Legislation
I Think That When You Look At The Great Politicians, The Two Greatest In My View Were George Washington And Abraham Lincoln, They Certainly Had Character Traits. You Also Know Abraham Lincoln Overcame Severe Depression Problems That He Had When He Was Younger, Which Gave Him The Strength And The Character Later On.
Inspirational
Strength
Strong
I'm As Frustrated With The French, I Think, As Anyone, But Look, There's Going To Be Other Challenges And There Are Going To Be Other Issues. As Long As There's A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.
War
Thinking
Issues
Let Me Say That No One Has Supported President Bush On Iraq More Than I Have.
Iraq
President
President Bush
The Political Tactics Of Division And Slander Are Not Our Values. They Are Corrupting Influences On Religion And Politics, And Those Who Practice Them In The Name Of Religion Or In The Name Of The Republican Party Or In The Name Of America Shame Our Faith, Our Party And Our Country.
Country
Party
Practice
We Can't Disrupt Polling Places Anymore, ... It Doesn't Serve Any Purpose. It Just Makes People Mad.
People
Mad
Purpose
I Don't Know A Politician Who Enjoys Fundraising. The System Is Such That The American People Have Lost Faith.
Fundraising
People
Politician
Our Political Differences, Now Matter How Sharply They Are Debated, Are Really Quite Narrow In Comparison To The Remarkably Durable National Consensus On Our Founding Convictions.
Political Differences
Matter
Conviction
I Intend To Do What I Can, Working With My Congressional Colleagues, Republicans And Democrats, To Help Bring About The Changes To The Practices And Institutions Of Our Democracy That They Want And Deserve.
Practice
Democracy
Want
[hillary Clinton] Was Saying, "we Never Going To Do Anything In Iraq, We're Not Going To Do Anything In Syria." Enemies, Do Whatever You Want. Continue The Largest Humanitarian Crisis, 7 Million People Displaced Refugees. Do All This. We're Not Going To Do Anything. That Is The Type Of Stuff That Is Been Happening For The Past 7 1/2 Years Under President [barack] Obama.
Past
Years
Iraq
My Preference Would Be To Remain In The Senate, ... But You Can't Say I Would Refuse To Serve In One Of Those (cabinet) Capacities. It's Not The Same As Vice President.
President
Vices
Would Be
Bin Laden’s Death And The Debate Over Torture.
Debate
Torture
Bin Laden
But Certainly In The Short Term, Or Even The Long Term, I Would Not Support Repeal Of Roe V. Wade, Which Would Then Force X Number Of Women In America To [undergo] Illegal And Dangerous Operations.
Numbers
America
Long
We Should Exhibit No Self Doubt To Our Friends, ... Credibility Is A Strategic Asset.
Self
Doubt
Assets
Just Stop At One Of These Construction Sites And Look And See Who Those Workers Are. They're All Hispanic ... And I Bet You They're Illegal.
Looks
Construction Sites
Illegal
Many Good People Mistake Their Reputation For Their Character. It Is A Mistake I Have Made Many, Many Times.
Mistake
Character
People
As Part Of Social Security Reform, I Believe That Private Savings Accounts Are A Part Of It - Along The Lines That President Bush Proposed.
Believe
President
Lines
For Decades We Have Been Living Lives Of Abundance, With Little Regard For Our Natural Resources Or Global Health. But We Are Now Facing Hard Choices In Our Energy Policy. Future Generations - My Children And Grandchildren, Along With Yours - Will Have To Live With The Decisions We Make Today. And So It Is Time For Us To Make Some Tough And - Hopefully - Smart Choices Regarding Our Energy Use And Production Before It Is Too Late.
Children
Smart
Live Life
Sarah Palin Knows More About Energy Than Probably Anyone Else In The United States Of America.
America
Energy
United States
Why The Hell Do I Have To Keep Updating My Apps On My Iphone All The Time And Why You Don't Fix That?
Iphone
Hell
Apps
Stategy In Iraq- Defeat Al-qaeda; Limit Iran's Influence.
Iran
Iraq
Als
Presidential Ambition Is A Disease That Can Only Be Cured By Embalming Fluid.
Ambition
Presidential
Disease
Courage Is The Enforcing Virtue, The One That Makes Possible All The Other Virtues Common To Exceptional Leaders: Honesty, Integrity, Confidence, Compassion And Humility
Leadership
Honesty
Integrity
To Equate Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, As Donald Trump Was Asked, You Know, I Guess It Was Bill O'reilly Who Said, "but Putin Is A Killer." And He Basically Said, "so Are We." That Moral Equivalency Is A Contradiction Of Everything The United States Has Ever Stood For In The 20th And 21st Century.
America
United States
Bills
What Was Fascinating To Me, Is That She [hillary Clinton] Still Cannot Answer Eloquently, Answers About Her E-mails, She Still Can't Explains To Me Why She's Not A Third Term Of [barack] Obama.
Answers
Mail
Clinton
Did You Hear The One About The Woman Who Is Attacked On The Street By A Gorilla, Beaten Senseless, Raped Repeatedly, And Left To Die? When She Finally Regains Consciousness And Tries To Speak, Her Doctor Leans Over To Hear Her Sigh Contently And To Feebly Ask, 'where Is That Marvelous Ape?'
Doctors
Trying
Gorillas
Instead Of Giving The Effort The Level Of Attention Needed, The Air Force Has Wasted A Year Doing Very Little To End Our Reliance On Russian Rocket Engines, If The Air Force Is Unwilling To Do What Is Necessary To Meet The 2019 Deadline, They Are Going To Have To Figure Out How To Meet Our Space Launch Needs Without The Rd-180 (russian Engine).
Air
Years
Space
The Only Way You Approach Politics And Seek Elective Office Is To Move Forward. For Me To Look Back In Anger Or With Any Rancor Would Be A Mistake.
Mistake
Moving
Office
We Need More Competitive Races, ... We Need The Voice Of Moderation.
Race
Voice
Needs
Iran Launches Monkey Into Space
Iran
Space
Monkeys
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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