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Every American Should Have Above Average Income, And My Administration Is Going To See They Get It.

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The Established Order Has Too Many Self-protecting Economic Entities, And Not Enough People Who Yet Understand What It Takes To Change.

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Anyone Can Want Something; It's Those Who Believe In Their Goals That Achieve.

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize And Don't Turn Back.

Over Time, The More We Bring China Into The World, The More The World Will Bring Freedom To China.

You Should Have Disagreements With Your Leaders And Your Colleagues, But If It Becomes Immediately A Question Of Questioning People's Motives, And If Immediately You Decide That Somebody Who Sees A Whole New Situation Differently Than You Must Be A Bad Person And Somehow Twisted Inside, We Are Not Going To Get Very Far In Forming A More Perfect Union.

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I Tried To Walk A Line Between Acting Lawfully And Testifying Falsely, But I Now Realize That I Did Not Fully Accomplish That Goal.

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I Will Get Things Done For America.... Faced With Apathy, I Will Take Action. Faced With Conflict, I Will Seek Common Ground.... Faced With Adversity, I Will Persevere. I Will Carry This Commitment With Me This Year. I Am An Americorps Volunteer.

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When We Got Organized As A Country And We Wrote A Fairly Radical Constitution With A Radical Bill Of Rights, Giving A Radical Amount Of Individual Freedom To Americans, It Was Assumed That The Americans Who Had That Freedom Would Use It Responsibly.

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I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century That Ends The Permanent Underclass, That Lifts Up The Poor And Ends Their Isolation, Their Exile, And They Are Not Forgotten Anymore.

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You Live In The Age Of Interdependence. Borders Don't Count For Much Or Stop Much, Good Or Bad, Anymore.

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I Misled People, Including Even My Wife.

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I Have News For The Forces Of Greed And The Defenders Of The Status Quo: Your Time Has Come - And Gone. It's Time For Change In America.

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Our Overriding Environmental Challenge Tonight Is The Worldwide Problem Of Climate Change, Global Warming, The Gathering Crisis That Requires Worldwide Action.

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We Have A Chance Here To Prove That [rwanda], A Country That Almost Slaughtered Itself Out Of Existence, Can Practice Reconciliation, Reorganize Itself, Focus On Tomorrow And Provide Comprehensive, Quality Health Care With Minimal Outside Help.

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In A World With No Systems, With Chaos, Everything Becomes A Guerilla Struggle, And This Predictability Is Not There. And It Becomes Almost Impossible To Save Lives, Educate Kids, Develop Economies, Whatever.

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The Fundamental Problem You Have Anywhere Is When People Think Their Lives And The Lives Of Their Children Don't Matter, They They Are Somehow Disposable, Just Like A Paper Napkin After A Lunch At A Restaurant Or Something, If We Want Our Freedom To Be In Deed As Well As Word In America, We Have To Make People Feel That Everybody Matters Again.

The Community Of Nations May See More And More Of The Very Kind Of Threat Iraq Poses Now: A Rogue State With Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Ready To Use Them Or Provide Them To Terrorists. If We Fail To Respond Today, Saddam And All Those Who Would Follow In His Footsteps Will Be Emboldened Tomorrow.

Mass Destruction

I'm Someone Who Had A Deep Emotional Attachment To 'starsky And Hutch.'

The Most Ethical Administration In The History Of The Republic.

[my Mom] Had This Amazing Attitude In The Face Of Everything, Including When She Got Cancer.

When People Are Feeling Insecure, They'd Rather Have Someone Who Is Strong And Wrong Rather Than Somebody Who Is Weak And Right.

I Challenge Every Business Person In America Who Has Ever Complained About The Failure Of The Welfare System To Try To Hire Somebody Off Welfare. And Try Hard.

I Recently Spoke With Barbara Jordan Of The U.s. Commission On Immigration Reform, And I Increasingly Believe We Need A System To Verify Employment Eligibility. The Commission's Recommendation Of A National Registry May Be The Way To Go.

I Can Spend Your Money Better Than You Can.

Better Than You

So We, Democrats, Have A Responsibility There, Every One Of Us, Both To Try To Treat The Republicans With Respect And As Human Beings To Try To Work With Them On Every Issue We Can, And Then If Those Cannons Are Fired At Us, We've Got To Stand Up And Fight Back. If You Lay Down And You Look Like A Deer Caught In The Headlights, Then You Will Confirm The Assault. And So We Have To Fight Back.

Volunteering Is An Act Of Heroism On A Grand Scale. And It Matters Profoundly. It Does More Than Help People Beat The Odds; It Changes The Odds.

My Father Left Me With The Feeling That I Had To Live For Two People, And That If I Did It Well Enough, Somehow I Could Make Up For The Life He Should Have Had. And His Memory Infused Me, At A Younger Age Than Most, With A Sense Of My Own Mortality. The Knowledge That I, Too, Could Die Young Drove Me Both To Try To Drain The Most Out Of Every Moment Of Life And To Get On With The Next Big Challenge. Even When I Wasn't Sure Where I Was Going, I Was Always In A Hurry.

The New Century Demands New Partnerships For Peace And Security. The United Nations Plays A Crucial Role, With Allies Sharing Burdens America Might Otherwise Bear Alone. America Needs A Strong And Effective U.n. I Want To Work With This New Congress To Pay Our Dues And Our Debts. We Must Continue To Support Security And Stability In Europe And Asia - Expanding Nato And Defining Its New Missions, Maintaining Our Alliance With Japan, With Korea, With Our Other Asian Allies, And Engaging China.

I Think The Democrats Are Going To Have To Be Willing To Give Up, Maybe, Some Short-term Political Gain By Whipping Up Fears On Some Of These Things - If It's A Reasonable Social Security Proposal, A Reasonable Medicare Proposal. We've Got To Deal With These Things. You Cannot Have Health Care Devour The Economy.

Follow The Trend Lines, Not The Headlines.

The Power Of Our Example Is More Important Than The Strength Of Our Military.

Think Of The Great Spirits Of The Last 50 Years: Ghandi Killed, Not By A Pakistani Muslim, But One Of His Own Hindus, Who Hated Him Because He Wanted India For The Muslims, The Sikhs, For Everybody; Sadat, Killed By The Organization That Mr. Bin Laden's No. 2 Heads Now, Not By An Israeli, But By An Egyptian. My Friend Yitzhak Rabin -- After A Lifetime Defending Israel, Killed -- Not By A Palestinian Terrorist, But An Angry Israeli Because He Wanted To Lay Down Arms And Take Up Peace... Fanatics Are Defined By Their Hatreds; Free People By Their Humanity.

This Remains A Very Important Opportunity For The American People To Have Their Day In Court Against Big Tobacco And Its Marketing Practices. I Urge Congress To Provide The Funding To Allow The Lawsuit To Move Forward, And Not To Shield The Tobacco Industry From The Consequences Of Its Actions.

No One Who Has Lived Through The Second Half Of The 20th Century Could Possibly Be Blind To The Enormous Impact Of Exchange Programs On The Future Of Countries.

When We Give What We Can, And Give It With Joy, We Don't Just Renew The American Tradition Of Giving, We Also Renew Ourselves.

Islam Is One Of The Fastest-growing Faiths Within America, And America Needs To Show That We're Not Anti-islam. We Are For, For People Being Free And Having Opportunity Everywhere, That... We Did That In Bosnia, We Did That In Kosovo, We Did That In Numerous Other Places In The World.

To Realize The Full Possibilities Of This Economy, We Must Reach Beyond Our Own Borders, To Shape The Revolution That Is Tearing Down Barriers And Building New Networks Among Nations And Individuals, And Economies And Cultures: Globalization. It's The Central Reality Of Our Time.

I Take Full Responsability...for What We Did. It Was The Right Thing To Do.

I Did Have A Relationship With Miss Lewinsky That Was Not Appropriate. In Fact, It Was Wrong. It Constituted A Critical Lapse In Judgment And A Personal Failure On My Part For Which I Am Solely And Completely Responsible.

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I Was An Equal Opportunity Eater. Every Ethnic Group Got A Shot.

That All Depends On What "is" Is.

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Somehow We All End Up Paying For What We Do.

If No One Consumes These Products, People Will Stop Roducing Them. They Will Not Build It If You Didn't Come.

Demand That Your Government Pays More Attention. It's Immoral That People In Africa Die Like Flies Of Diseases That No One Dies Of In The United States. And The More Disease There Is, The More Political Unrest There Will Be, Leading To More Darfurs, Which The U.s. Will Have To Pay To Fix.

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

Working Together

The Bush Administration Continues To Coddle China, Despite Its Continuing Crackdown On Democratic Reform, Its Brutal Subjugation Of Tibet, Its Irresponsible Export Of Nuclear And Missile Technology... Such Forbearance On Our Part Might Have Made Sense During The Cold War When China Was The Counterweight To Soviet Power. It Makes No Sense To Play The China Card Now When Our Opponents Have Thrown In Their Hand.

Turning 50 Gives Me More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows.

Mental Illness Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of, But Stigma And Bias Shame Us All.

Only A Fool Does Not Look To Explain His Mistakes.

Nearly Every Problem Has Been Solved By Someone, Somewhere. The Challenge Of The 21st Century Is To Find Out What Works And Scale It Up.

Communications And Commerce Are Global; Investment Is Mobile; Technology Is Almost Magical; And Ambition For A Better Life Is Now Universal. We Earn Our Livelihood In Peaceful Competition With People All Across The Earth. Profound And Powerful Forces Are Shaking And Remaking Our World, And The Urgent Question Of Our Time Is Whether We Can Make Change Our Friend And Not Our Enemy.

I Was Not Elected To Produce A Pile Of Vetoes.

You Know, Everybody Makes Mistakes When They Are President.

I Did Attempt To Find Out If There Were Any Secret Government Documents That Revealed Things. If There Were, They Were Concealed From Me Too. And If There Were, Well I Wouldn't Be The First American President That Underlings Have Lied To, Or That Career Bureaucrats Have Waited Out. But There May Be Some Career Person Sitting Around Somewhere, Hiding These Dark Secrets, Even From Elected Presidents. But If So, They Successfully Eluded Me...and I'm Almost Embarrassed To Tell You I Did (chuckling) Try To Find Out.

Everybody Has A Gas-guzzling Car Because People Like Suvs. They Would Like Suvs If They Were Hybrid Vehicles That Had The Same Horsepower And Used Less Gasoline. Instead, What The Auto Manufacturers Are Doing Is Building Suvs That Are Hybrid Vehicles That Use The Same Amount Of Gasoline Because They Up The Horsepower. That's A Decision That They Make To Market Irresponsible Economic Behavior. The American People Like The Suvs, They Have Kids, They, They Need Them, They Get Around In Them, But We Have Options.

Now, People Ask Me All The Time How We Got Four Surplus Budgets In A Row. What New Ideas Did We Bring To Washington? I Always Give A One-word Answer: Arithmetic.

The First Thing You Ought To Do When You Find Yourself In A Hole Is Quit Digging. . . . Instead They Are Looking For A Bigger Shovel.

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Sometimes I Think The Environment In Which We Operate Is Entirely Too Secular. The Fact That We Have Freedom Of Religion Doesn't Mean We Need To Try To Have Freedom From Religion

Progress Changes Consciousness, And When People's Consciousness Changes, Then Their Awareness Of What Is Possible Changes As Well - A Virtuous Circle.

In Our Hearts And In Our Laws, We Must Treat All Our People With Fairness And Dignity, Regardless Of Their Race, Religion, Gender Or Sexual Orientation. . . .

When I Was In England, I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two, And I Didnt Like It, And I Didnt Inhale, And I Never Tried Again.

We Set Forth On A Journey To Bring Our Vision To Our Country, To Keep The American Dream Alive For All Who Are Willing To Work For It, To Make Our American Community Stronger, To Keep America The World's Strongest Force For Peace And Freedom And Prosperity.

Sarah, There's A Government Inside The Government, And I Don't Control It.

President Obama's Approach Embodies The Values, The Ideas And The Direction America Has To Take To Build The 21st-century Version Of The American Dream: A Nation Of Shared Opportunities, Shared Responsibilities, Shared Prosperity, A Shared Sense Of Community.

I Will Tell You This: I Will Not Raise Taxes On The Middle-class To Pay For These Programs.

If You Think The President Was Right To Open The Doors Of American Opportunity To Young Immigrants Brought Here As Children Who Want To Go To College Or Serve In The Military, You Should Vote For Barack Obama.

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.

I Hate It When People Blame Someone Else And Don't Take Responsibility.

I Want To Make It Very Clear That This Middle-class Tax Cut, In My View, Is Central To Any Attempt We're Going To Make To Have A Short-term Economic Strategy And A Long-term Fairness Strategy, Which Is Part Of Getting This Country Going Again.

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