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I'd Be Lying If I Said That I Knew I Was There. I'm Being Completely Honest. Nobody Has A Right In My View To Seek Presidents Office Unless They Are Willing To Give It 110 Percent Of Who They Are.

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Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, And General Motors Is Alive.

Osama Bin Laden

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Telling The Truth

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It's Amazing To Me That No Matter What City, What State, No Matter Where I Am, A Woman Will Come Up To Me And Say "thank You, Thank You" For Writing The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, Which Funds Services For Victims And Pushes To Put More Assailants Behind Bars.

The Truth Is, My Dad Was A Great Driver. I Mean, He Could Handle An Automobile. He Loved Speed. He Used To Joke That His One Regret Was He Didn't Join The Volunteer Fire Service So He Could Drive The Ambulance.

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.

You Never Say To A President For Certain You Wouldn't Do Anything, But I Have No - Look At Me Now - I Have No Desire To Sit On The Supreme Court, None. It Would Be A Great Honor , But I Have No Desire, Any More Than George Mitchell Did.

I Exaggerate When I’m Angry, But I’ve Never Gone Around Telling People Things That Aren’t True About Me.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

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

We Are Boston. We Are America. We Respond. We Endure. We Overcome. And We Own The Finish Line.

Somalis Have Made My City Of Wilmington, Delaware, [their Home] On A Smaller Scale. There Is A Large, Very Identifiable Somali Community, I Might Add If You Ever Come To The Train Station With Me You'll Notice I Have Great Relationships With Them Because There's An Awful Lot Driving Cabs And Are Friends Of Mine. For Real. I'm Not Being Solicitous. I'm Being Serious.

As My Family And I Have Worked Through The Grieving Process, I've Said All Along ... That It May Very Well Be That That Process, By The Time We Get Through, It, Closes The Window On Mounting A Realistic Campaign For President That It Might Close.

You Know, The Eleven Million People Living In The Shadows, I Believe, They're Already American Citizens... These People Are Just Waiting, Waiting For A Chance To Contribute Fully. And By That Standard Alone Eleven Million Undocumented Aliens Are Already Americans In My View.

If You Need More Than 10 Rounds To Hunt, And Some Argue They Hunt With That Many Rounds, You Shouldn't Be Hunting. If You Can't Get The Deer In 3 Shots, You Shouldn't Be Hunting. You Are An Embarrassment.

Al Qaeda Is Almost All In Pakistan, And Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons. And Yet For Every Dollar We're Spending In Pakistan, We're Spending $30 In Afghanistan. Does That Make Strategic Sense?

You Guys At Fox Can't Seem To Get Your Facts Straight.

The Truth Is I Don't Regret It. It Was The Right Decision [not Run For President] For My Family, And The Right Decision For Me.

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.

I Believe The Measure Of A Man Isn't Just The Road He's Traveled; It's The Choices He's Made Along The Way.

I Believe Health Care Is A Basic Right. If Education - You're Entitled To An Education, Why Wouldn't You Be Entitled To Adequate Health Care? Period.

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