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Folks, You're The Reason That The Automobile Industry Is Back. Whether It Was The Wage Freezes, The Plant Closures, Folks, You Sacrificed To Keep Your Companies Open. Because Of Your Productivity, The Combined Auto Companies Have Committed To Invest Another $23 Billion In Expansion In America.

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Folks, You're The Reason That The Automobile Industry Is Back. Whether It Was The Wage Freezes, The Plant Closures, Folks, You Sacrificed To Keep Your Companies Open. Because Of Your Productivity, The Combined Auto Companies Have Committed To Invest Another $23 Billion In Expansion In America.

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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.

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There's About 100 Different Cancers In A Cancer Cell. And So What We're Finding Out Is, They're Finding Out Ways To Deal With One Or Two Of The Cancers There, With Certain Medicines. But They Don't Know Why, If You Have That Cancer And I Have That Cancer, And I Get The Therapy And You Get It, I Don't Live And You Live. That - They Don't Know Why.

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Sure, We Have An Obstacle, Isis. They Can Do Great Damage. They Can Do Great Damage And They Scare The Living Hell Out Of Everybody With Good Reason. But They Are, Instead Of Dealing With Nation-states That Are Arranged Against Us, We're To Deal With Non-state Actors That Can Do Damage To Us. But This Is Within Our Control. We Are Beginning To Make Genuine Progress As To How We Isolate Them, How We Take Them Out. We're In A Situation - I Mean, I Just Could Go On. But I Am - The Only Generic Criticism I Had Is We're Not Talking About The Possibilities.

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And Since Our Country's Founding, We've Tried To Keep Government's Heavy Hand Out Of Our Personal Lives, While Ensuring That We Do The Most Important Thing, Which Is To Protect Those Who Cannot Protect Themselves.

I Get A Lot Of Credit I Don't Deserve.

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People Are Suspect Because They Believe Your Ideology Blinds You To Equal Application Of The Law, And The Facts.

There's Good Reason To Be Excited. You Have The First Woman Running Who Is Qualified, And A Very Attractive African-american Who Has Demonstrated Crossover Appeal. I Got Involved In Politics 40 Years Ago During The Civil Rights Movement, So Yes, It's An Exciting Thing.

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If You Go Back And Look At The History Of Supreme Court Fights From The Very Beginning There Is A Corresponding Interest, And And The Intent Of The Interest Of The Senate With, As It Relates To The Probability That The Next Appointee Would Alter The Balance In The Court.

Success Will Come When The Societal Attitude Changes And Not A Single Woman In America Asks Herself The Question 'what Did I Do?'.

Domestic Violence

The Average Voter Out There Understands That The Next President Is Going To Have To Be Prepared To Immediately Step In Without Hesitation And End Our Involvement In Iraq. It's Very Difficult To Figure Out How To Move On To Broader Foreign Policy Concerns Without Fixing Iraq First.

Social Security's Not The Hard One To Solve. Medicare, That Is The Gorilla In The Room, And You've Got To Put All Of It On The Table.

We Don't Have To Reinvent The Wheel, Just Go Back To What It Was In Terms Of How Corporations Acted In Terms Of Their Collective Responsibility Just 20 Years Ago.

We Also Wanted To Change The Story - Change The Approach To The 21st Century On Energy, On Education, On Transportation, On Infrastructure, Generally, And It Laid The Groundwork For That. And One Of The Reasons I'm Doing This Trip Is Not Only To Say What We Did Worked, But To Say We Should Do More Of This.

Over The Objections, Where They Sound Like Squealing Pigs, Over The Objections Of Romney And All His Allies, We Passed Some Of The Toughest Wall Street Regulations In History, Turning Wall Street Back Into The Allocator Of Capital It Always Has Been And No Longer A Casino. And They Want To Repeal It.

Should We Have Border Security There? Yes. But The Idea Of The United States Erecting A Wall For The World To See Makes A Lie Of Everything We Say About Ourselves. It's A Little Bit Like Why The President [barack Obama] And I Feel So Strongly About Closing Guantanamo. It Is Inconsistent With Who We Are.

Somalis Have Made My City Of Wilmington, Delaware, [ Their Home ] On A Smaller Scale. There Is A Large, Very Identifiable Somali Community.

You Get A Lawyer Whether You're In A Military Tribunal Or Whether You're In A Federal Court, Number One. The Attorney General Decided That The Court With The Biggest - With The Greatest Venue, With The Best Jurisdiction Was The New York Court. That Was The Right Decision To Make.

We Can Say, "if You Want Government Money, You Have To Make This Data Public - You Have To Share It."

If You Do Politics The Right Way, I Believe, You Can Actually Make People's Lives Better. And Integrity Is The Minimum Ante To Get Into The Game.

In The Middle Of A Recession, Where We're Just Climbing Out Of It, Where The Economy -unemployment Is Still At 9.7 Percent, The Idea Of Raising Taxes And Reducing Spending Is A Prescription For Disaster.

I Know The Polling Data Shows People Have A Negative View But If You Listen To Everything Out There, You Think, My God. We're In Such Deep Trouble. We Created More Jobs Than Every Other Industrial Country In The World Combined.

This [judge Samuel Alito] May Be One Of The Most Significant Or Consequential Nominations That The Senate Will Vote On Since I've Been Here In The Last Three Decades.

I Once Said, "you Cannot Go To A 7-eleven Or A Dunkin' Donuts Unless You Have A Slight Indian Accent." When Bobby Jindal Entered The Republican Campaign, My Comment Should Have Been Covered Again, More Prominently. I Mean, Jindal Is Not Native American, He's A Real Indian.

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When Violence Against Women Is No Longer Societally Accepted, No Longer Kept Secret; When Everyone Understands That Even One Case Is Too Many. That's When It Will Change.

We [us Government] Have No Fundamental Disagreement With The Saudis - I Mean, Excuse Me, With The Iraqis Any More Than We Do With The Arab League, Which We Happen To Support The Position They're Taking.

President Clinton Bankrupted Chrysler So That Italians Could Buy It To Ship Jobs Overseas To China.

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.

We Take Care Of Those Who Are Grieving, And When That's Finished, They Should Know: We Will Follow Them To The Gates Of Hell Until They Are Brought To Justice. Because Hell Is Where They Will Reside. Hell Is Where They Will Reside.

But All Our Differences Hardly Measure Up To The Values We All Hold In Common.

Al Gore Invented The Internet.

We're Approaching Being Able To Do A Billion Billion Calculations Per Second, And That's The - That's The Objective Of Our National Labs. We're Still Not There. But With Hundreds Of Millions Of Calculations Per Second.

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