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I Would Never Want To See Myself Viewed As Beating The Drums Of War, ... But I Would Rather Live With That Image Than Look Into The Mirror And See A Member Of Congress Who Failed To Do His Duty.

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I Would Never Want To See Myself Viewed As Beating The Drums Of War, ... But I Would Rather Live With That Image Than Look Into The Mirror And See A Member Of Congress Who Failed To Do His Duty.

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Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

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Senator Obama Voted Against Justice Breyer And Justice Roberts On The Grounds That They Didn't Meet His Ideological Standards. That's Not The Way We Should Judge These Nominees. Elections Have Consequences.

I'm Not President Bush

It's A Tough Path To Citizenship. You've Got To Pay Back Taxes. You've Got To Learn English. You've Got To Have A Clear Record. You've Got To Get To The Back Of The Line Behind Other People Who Have Come Here Legally Or Even Waiting Legally.

I Have The Greatest Appreciation For Governor [sarah] Palin And Her Family. There's Great Joy To Know Them.

We Got Results That Would Not Have Been Possible Without A Negotiating Partner Like Joe Biden.

Immigration And Border Security Remain Critical Issues That I Am Committed To Addressing This Year. The Good News Is That Illegal Immigration Is At An All-time Low, Making Now The Time To Dedicate The Needed Technology And Resources To Finally Secure The Border For Good. As Border Security Improves, I Look Forward To Working In A Bipartisan Manner To Fix Our Broken Immigration System And Address The Millions Of People Living In The United States Outside Of Legal Status.

An Act Of Heroism, Of Extraordinary Courage, The Grandeur Of It, Won't Easily Inspire Us To Act In Imitation, But It Can Inspire Us To Emulate Its Author. For That, We Should Learn What We Can Of The Whole Experience Of The Subject, The Hero's Life, As It Was Before And After, And Believe That Trying To Emulate The Character It Reveals Is One Tried Way To Prepare For The Tests That Might Await Us And Gain Hope That Our Courage Will Not Be Wanting In The Moment.

There's Going To Be Other Wars. I'm Sorry To Tell You, There's Going To Be Other Wars. We Will Never Surrender, But There Will Be Other Wars.

Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.

It's Very Clear That Vladimir Putin Has Decided That He Will Eliminate His Opponents And Anyone Who Stands Up For Democracy And Freedom. And He Does So With Relative Impunity.

If We Leave Iraq, Terrorists Will Follow Us Home.

Hillary [clinton] Saying We're Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Iraq, We Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Syria Petrified Me, Simply Because, Why - What If This Continues Despite Out Of Control.

The President(obama) Comparing Him To A Kid In The Back Of A Classroom, I Think, Is Very Indicative Of The President's Lack Of Appreciation Of Who Vladimir Putin Is. He's An Old Kgb Colonel That Has No Illusions About Our Relationship, Does Not Care About A Relationship With The United States, Continues To Oppress His People, Continues To Act In An Autocratic Fashion.

We Need Not Risk Our National Honor To Prevail In This Or Any War.

Let's Move Forward To Try To Address The Most Egregious And Outrageous Corrupting Aspect Of Campaigns In America Today And That Is The Incredible Inundation Of Soft Money And Its Pernicious Effects.

As Long As There Is A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.

Working Together

There's One Big Difference Between Me And The Others - I Won't Take Every Last Dime Of The Surplus And Spend It On Tax Cuts That Mostly Benefit The Wealthy. I'll Use The Bulk Of The Surplus To Secure Social Security Far Into The Future To Keep Our Promise To The Greatest Generation.

My Hero Is A Guy Named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt Used To Say, Walk Softly, Talk Softly But Carry A Big Stick.

I Am Not President Bush.

Many Good People Mistake Their Reputation For Their Character. It Is A Mistake I Have Made Many, Many Times.

The Russians Are Succeeding In Continuing Their Dismemberment Of Ukraine, They're Succeeding In Exerting Enormous Influence In The Middle East, Which They Never Had Before. They Are Succeeding - They Have Succeeded In Interfering With Our Election, And We Know That They Continue That In The French Elections And Other Elections. And So Far They Have Paid A Little Or No Penalty For All Of This Misbehavior.

The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

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