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Guess What, The Cheerleaders In College Are The Best Athletes In College. You Think, I'm Joking, They're Almost All Gymnasts, The Stuff They Do On Hard Wood, It Blows My Mind.

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

Grow Up, Donald Trump. Grow Up. Time To Be An Adult. You're President. You've Got To Do Something. Show Us What You Have.

My Dad Always Said, 'champ, The Measure Of A Man Is Not How Often He Is Knocked Down, But How Quickly He Gets Up.'

I Get Overwhelming Support In The African-american Community.

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I Worked At An All-black Swimming Pool In The East Side Of Wilmington, I Was Involved In What The Negroes, I Mean, Blacks Were Thinking, What They Were Feeling.

If I Hear One More Republican Tell Me About Balancing The Budget, I Am Going To Strangle Them.

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.

I Have Never Left Another Senator Out To Dry. Never.

I Always Kid The President In Different Circumstances. Mr. President, A Country's Never Going To Be More Optimistic Than The President.

The Spirit Of Thanksgiving Rests In Our Recognizing The Blessings In Our Lives, And As We All Take Stock, I Hope You Will Join Me In Expressing Sincerest Thanks To Our Soldiers Serving In Harm's Way In Iraq, Afghanistan, And Around The World. May God Bless You On This Day Of Thanks, And May God Protect Our Troops.

Justice [sandra Day] O'connor Also Brought Balance To Our Highest Court; Most Recently, As Been Repeated Many Times, When She Cautioned About How War Doesn't Give A Blank Check.

There's No Reason The Nation Of Africa Cannot And Should Not Join The Ranks Of The World's Most Prosperous Nations In The Near Term, In The Decades Ahead. There Is Simply No Reason.

The Idea That You Know More Than The Intelligence Community Knows, It's A Little Like Saying, I Know More About Physics Than My Professor.

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