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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."

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I Believe At Its

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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."

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If We Were Able To Put Every Single Solitary Cancer Cell That Has A Genomic - Had Their Genome Done In One Place, We Have The Computing Capacity To Go In And Look At What Are The Similarities And Dissimilarities That Make Them Work And Don't Work. And Every Expert Will Tell You, It Is Probably Gonna Exponentially Increase The Capacity To Be Able To Find, A, Cures, B, Vaccines, And C, Turn Some Cancers Into Chronic Diseases, Rather Than It Cost You Your Life.

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I Didn't Make A Political Speech Outside Of My State For 20 Years. And I Just Focused Almost Exclusively On My Initiatives For National Crime Legislation, Foreign Policy Issues.

During The 60's, I Was, In Fact, Very Concerned About The Civil Rights Movement.

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 Support Immediate Financial Assistance To The Newly Elected Palestinian President. Now, I Don't Know What Those Numbers Will Be, And I Don't Know How It's Going To Be Framed.

I Acknowledge These Are Very Tough Jobs A Judge Has In Determining Whether Or Not There Is An Openness That Is Required Under The Constitution.

The Art Of Living Is Simply Getting Up After You've Been Knocked Down.

Apologized For Saying Barack Obama Was Clean And Articulate.

I Did Not Grope The Wife Of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter Or The Daughter Of Sen. Christopher Coons. I Don't Put Drugs In Drinks Or Give Drinks To Underage Females. And All Those Photos About Me Inappropriately Touching Girls, They Are Blown-up.

In My Neighborhood, When You've Got Something To Say To A Guy, You Look Him In The Eye And You Say It To Him.

I Believe The American People Have A Genuine And Justifiable Fear Of Government Intrusion In What They Instinctively Know Is Going To Be An Ever More Intrusive World.

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.

Plan B Is If Hillary [clinton] Is Indicted. Then, Even If I Missed The Deadlines For The First Couple Of Primaries, I'll Be There To Rescue The Party. All Bets Are Off.

Presumptuous For Me To Say, But At Least - At A Minimum - I've Been Able To Influence The Direction Of The Democratic Party On Foreign Policy. And I've Been Relatively - Presumptuous To Say - Relatively Successful Legislatively In The Senate, Being Able To Win A Lot Of Republican Friends, And Being Able To Cross The Aisle.

Not That I've Always Agreed With What She Said - Far From It - But Justice Sandra Day O'connor Has Been Properly Lauded, In My View, As A Judge Who Approached Her Duties With Open-mindedness And With A Sensitivity That Affects Her Decisions Would Have On Everyday, Ordinary People.

There Will Come A Day, I Promise You, When The Thought Of Your Son, Or Daughter, Or Your Wife Or Your Husband, Brings A Smile To Your Lips Before It Brings A Tear To Your Eye. It Will Happen. My Prayer For You Is That Day Will Come Sooner Than Later.

I Was Not An Activist.

People Took The Word "clean" Out Of Context. My Mother Had An Expression: "clean As A Whistle, Sharp As A Tack." I Inherited Her Originality.

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

You Know We're Going To Control The Insurance Companies.

Insurance Companies

In The Good Old Days When I Was A Senator, I Was My Own Man.

Obama And Biden Want To Raise Taxes By A Trillion Dollars. Guess What? Yes We Do.

The Russians Appear To Be - Appear To Be In Conjunction With The Turks, As Well As The Iranians, Appear To Be At A Point Where They Are Realizing For Their Interests As Well, Assad Being In Power Indefinitely Is Not In Their Interests.

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.

Wealthy People Understand We're One America, And We Do Best When We're All Together.

John Mccain Is A Personal Friend, A Great Friend, And I Would Be Honored To Run With Or Against John Mccain, Because I Think The Country Would Be Better Off, Be Well Off No Matter Who.

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