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I Am Absolutely Comfortable With The Fact That Men Marrying Men, Women Marrying Women, And Heterosexual Men And Women Marrying Another Are Entitled To The Same Exact Rights, All The Civil Rights, All The Civil Liberties. And Quite Frankly, I Don't See Much Of A Distinction Beyond That.

Some Studies Have Shown Close To 70 Percent Of Men Who Are In Prison Have One Of Two Things In Common: One, They Can't Read. And Two, They Witnessed Violence Or Were Victims Of Violence As A Child. You Would Think That If You Had Seen Your Mother Get Beaten When You Were 10 Years Old, You'd Never Raise Your Hand To A Woman. Not True. The Prospect That You Will Increases Dramatically If You Witness Violence. So It's So Much Bigger Than Just About Women. It's About Our Society. It's About Our Culture. It's About Who The Hell We Are.

Anybody Who Pretends That How You Read The 10th And 11th Amendment Doesn't Have A Fundamental Impact On The Things We Care About Is Kidding Themselves. They're Either Uninformed Or They're Kidding Themselves.

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.

No Foreign Policy Can Be Sustained In The United States Of America Without The Informed Consent Of The American People. And Informed Means Just That, Successes And Failure, A Realistic Assessment Of Where We Are And What The President Plans To Do About It.

You Can Go Back 500 Years. You Cannot Find A More Audacious Plan.

You Know You're A Success When You Look At Your Kids And Realize They Turned Out Better Than You.

America Is The Promised Land, Because Each Generation Bequeathed To Its Children A Promise, A Promise That They Might Not Come To Enjoy But Which They Fully Expected Their Offspring To Fulfill. So The Words 'all Men Are Created Equal' Took A Life Of Its Own, Ultimately Destined To End Slavery And Enfranchise Women. And The Words 'equal Protection' And 'due Process' Inevitably Led To The End Of The Words 'separate But Equal,' Ensuring That The Walls Of Segregation Would Crumble, Whether At The Lunch Counter Or At The Voting Booth.

War Should Always Be The Absolute Last Resort.

The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons Is The Greatest Threat Facing The Country-and I Would Argue Facing Humanity.

The Constitution Provides For One Democratic Moment, Judge, Before A Lifetime Of Judicial Independence, When The People Of The United States Are Entitled To Know As Much As We Can About The Person That We're About To Entrust With Safeguarding Our Future And The Future Of Our Kids.

I Always Wonder When It Was That I Was Embraced.

The Greatest Gift Is The Ability To Forget - To Forget The Bad Things And Focus On The Good.

I’ve Been Calling For More Troops For Over Two Years, Along With John Mccain And Others Subsequent To My Saying That.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

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.

I Know I'm Not Supposed To Like Muscle Cars, But I Like Muscle Cars.

When We Wrote The Constitution, The Intention Was To Give The Commander In Chief The Authority How To Use The Forces When You Authorize Him To Be Able To Use The Forces.

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

It's Easy Being Vice President - You Don't Have To Do Anything.

Most Liberals Think Of Civil Liberties As Their Achilles Heel. It Isn't.

The White House Isn't The Place To Learn How To Deal With International Crisis, The Balance Of Power, War And Peace, And The Economic Future Of The Next Generation.

Life Is A Matter Of Really Tough Choices.

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.

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.

How I Learned To Love The New World Order.

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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.

The President Has A Big Stick.

It Is No Secret That I Believe My Son, Attorney General Beau Biden, Would Make A Great United States Senator - Just As I Believe He Has Been A Great Attorney General. But Beau Has Made It Clear From The Moment He Entered Public Life, That Any Office He Sought, He Would Earn On His Own.

Raising Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Benefit The Workers Behind Me, It Creates A Proven Ripple Effect That Increases Wages All The Way Up The Scale. ... Let's Get The Facts Straight, Only 20 Percent Of People Making The Minimum Wage Are Teenagers. The Rest Are Hardworking Adults, Many Of Them With Families, And I Mean Hardworking.

This Is Absolutely Bizarre That We Continue To Subsidize Highways Beyond The Gasoline Tax, Airlines, And We Don't Subsidize, We Don't Want To Subsidize A National Rail System That Has Environmental Impact.

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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.

It Is The Most Vicious Of All Crimes - To Be Abused By Someone You Had A Relationship With! Because Then You Blame Yourself.

Make Sure Of Two Things. Be Careful - Microphones Are Always Hot, And Understand That In Washington, D.c., A Gaffe Is When You Tell The Truth. So, Be Careful.

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

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Every Other Country Where There's Absolute Chaos Now, What Is It? They're Pluralistic Without Consensus. Look At Almost Every Single Country, From Syria, To Iraq, To Iran, Ukraine, No Matter Where It Is. I Just Think It Is Totally Counter To Our Tradition.

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

Mark My Words. It Will Not Be Six Months Before The World Tests Barack Obama Like They Did John Kennedy.

There's A False Choice Being Put Forward By Some Democrats Now. Either We Double-down On Our Progressive Values, Or We Go Out There And Talk About The Middle Class And The Working Class. I've Never Found Them Inconsistent. They Go Together.

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

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Mark My Words.it Will Not Be Six Months Before The World Tests Barack Obama Like They Did John Kennedy. The World Is Looking. We're About To Elect A Brilliant 47-year-old Senator President Of The United States Of America. Remember I Said It Standing Here If You Don't Remember Anything Else I Said. Watch, We're Gonna Have An International Crisis, A Generated Crisis, To Test The Mettle Of This Guy.

The Constitution Says The President Shall Nominate, Not Maybe He Could, Maybe He Can't, He Shall Nominate. Implicit In The Constitution Is That The Senate Will Act On Its Constitutional Responsibility And Give Its Advice And Consent. No One Is Required To Vote For The Nominee.

If Your Kitchen Table Is Like Mine, You Sit There At Night Before You Put The Kids To Bed And You Talk About What You Need. You Talk About How Much You Are Worried About Being Able To Pay The Bills. Ladies And Gentlemen, That Is Not A Worry John Mccain Has To Worry About. It's A Pretty Hard Experience. He'll Have To Figure Out Which Of The Seven Kitchen Tables To Sit At.

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.

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Since When Do Corporations Not Have Responsibility To The Community? Since When To The Not Have Responsibility To Their Employees?

One Of The Reasons To Pick The Cancer Effort Is To Demonstrate To People That There's Not Much Beyond Our Capacity. It Will Take Time, But If We Focus, If We Narrow Down Where The Bottle Necks Are And We Move, There's Never Been A Problem We Can't Solve.

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Justice Sandra Day O'connor Decisions Reflect, In My View, That Our Society Has Worked Very Hard To Improve The Workaday World, To Open Doors To Workers Confronted By Powerful Employers And For Women Facing Harassment And Stereotypes.

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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.

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 Get A Lot Of Credit I Don't Deserve.

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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.

I'm Prepared As A Matter Of Faith To Accept That Life Begins At The Moment Of Conception. But That Is My Judgment. For Me To Impose That Judgment On Everyone Else Who Is Equally And Maybe Even More Devout Than I Am Seems To Me Is Inappropriate In A Pluralistic Society.

The Public Has Moved Beyond Politicians. For Example, I'm Not Worried About Them Repealing Protections For The Lgbt Community, Because The Public Is Beyond That. I'm Not Worried About Them Being Able To Change The Way In Which We Have Reached Out And Provided Many More Opportunities For Women. And I - But Here's What Does Concern Me. What Concerns Me Is That They Will Make Some Judgments In The Foreign Policy Area, Without Having Thought It Through That May Cause A Lot Of Problems.

I Believe All Americans Are Born With Certain Inalienable Rights. As A Child Of God, I Believe My Rights Are Not Derived From The Constitution. My Rights Are Not Derived From Any Government. My Rights Are Not Denied By Any Majority. My Rights Are Because I Exist. They Were Given To Me And Each Of My Fellow Citizens By Our Creator, And They Represent The Essence Of Human Dignity.

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

We Have To Make Sure That Not Only We [politicians] Actually Focus On, But The Entire Nation Knows We're Focusing On, Growth And Competition Within The United States Of America And Compete Internationally. I Don't Know Anywhere Where It's Written That We Have To Be Number Two.

There's One Advantage In Having Been Around As Long As I Have. Everybody In The Senate Knows Me, And - I'm Going To Say Something Presumptuous, To Repeat Myself - I Think Most Respect Me.

This Attitude Of How Society Views Women As Chattel - That's The Biggest Thing To Overcome. When I First Started A Stake In The Issue Of Relationship Abuse, I Got Really Beat Up By The Christian Right Because I Was Interfering In What Was A Personal Family Affair. It's A "family Matter." That's Why I Wish We'd Drop The Phrase "domestic Violence." It Sounds Like A Domesticated Cat. It Is The Most Vicious Of All Crimes - To Be Abused By Someone You Had A Relationship With! Because Then You Blame Yourself.

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.

I Must Express My Protest Against Continually Increasing The Debt Without Taking Positive Steps To Slow Its Growth.

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.

I Had A Great Deal Of Trouble Focusing. My Two - I Had Three Children, And The Two That Survived - Boys - Were Very Badly Injured. I Did My Job. I Didn't Miss The Votes. I Showed Up. But I Just Could Hardly Wait To Get Home.

I Kept Trying To Tell People That Just Because I Was Young Didn't Mean I Could Speak For All Young People.

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 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.

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

I've Been A Strong Supporter Of Public Financing My Whole Career. I'm The First Guy To Introduce A Public Financing Bill To The United States Senate In 1973.

Apologized For Saying Barack Obama Was Clean And Articulate.

I Still Care Deeply About So Many Thing. And So I'm Going To Be Engaged. I'm Going To Be Out There As - With A Platform To Talk About The Things That I Care About: Foreign Policy And, You Know, Violence Against Women, You Know, The Inequity In The Tax Structure.

Some Of My Best Friends Are Jewish Contributors To The Democratic Party.

I Didn't Deserve To Be President Just Based On The Richter Scale Of 'was I Tough Enough And Did I Understand The Process?'

I Think It Is Very Possible He [donald Trump] Could Be Nominated And Depending On How This All Plays Out, I Would Take Him Seriously In Terms Of Being Able To Win Because He's Appealing To A Very, Very - He's Appealing To Fear.

Every Single Morning Since I've Been 27 Years Old, I've Got Up And Someone's Handed Me A Card Like The One I Have In My Pocket With The Schedule On It, Of All The Things I'm Gonna Do. I Don't Know What To Do If I Didn't Have That Card.

Don't Listen To The Cynics. They Were Wrong About My Generation And They Were Wrong About Yours.

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

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.

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."

You Know Whether You Have A Real Relationship With The President When You Know It's Real.

Real Relationship

I've Never Been Called A Man Of Few Words.

I Never Had An Interest In Being A Mayor ’cause That’s A Real Job. You Have To Produce. That’s Why I Was Able To Be A Senator For 36 Years.

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.

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

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It's A Problem That We [usa] Think The Iranians Are Backing Hezbollah; The Iranians Are Backing Terrorist Activity In Many Parts Of That Region.

I Wish I Had Been More Mature. I Wish I Had Handled The Immediate Aftermath Of The Accident Involving My Family Better.

Everyone Plagiarizes Me. Ever Since I Wrote My Autobiography.

No One Doubts That Innocent Men, Women And Children Have Been The Victims Of Chemical Weapons Attacks In Syria. And There's No Doubt Who Is Responsible For This Heinous Use Of Chemical Weapons In Syria: The Syrian Regime.

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.

It Is True That The Vast Majority Of Gun Deaths In America Are Not The Consequence Of The Use Of An 'assault Weapon.' But That Begs The Question Of Whether Assault Weapons Have Any Real Utility Either In Terms Of Any Sporting Or Self Protection Needs.

I Know What I Believe, I Know What I Want To Do, And I'm Just Comfortable Saying It, And Laying It Out There.

Think About The Decade After Iraq, Not Just The Day After.

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

I'm Confident Because Of The - What We [usa Government] Call The Strategic Agreement We're Now Working On With Them, We Will Be Deeply Involved Within Every Aspect Of Their Government From Helping Them Improve Their Agriculture, To Train Air Traffic Controllers, To Train Pilots For The F-16s They're Buying. So We'll Have A Deep Relationship.

I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

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

Well, You Know, My Shotgun Will Do Better For You Than Your Ar-15, Because You Want To Keep Someone Away From Your House, Just Fire The Shotgun Through The Door.

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.

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

No One Making Less Than $250,000 Under Barack Obama's Plan Will See One Single Penny Of Their Tax Raised, Whether It's Their Capital Gains Tax, Their Income Tax, Investment Tax, Any Tax.

The Number One Job Facing The Middle Class. And It Happens To Be, As Barack Says, A Three-letter Word: Jobs. J-o-b-s.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

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.

Donald Trump Is Appealing To, That Whole Expression, Everybody Who Asked Me, Why Is Trump Able To Win In Those 16 People? There's A Whole Expression. In The Land Of The Blind, The One-eyed Man Is King. I'm Not Very Good At Prognosticating But I Would Not Be Surprised If He's The Nominee.

Well, We're [usa] Not Looking For An Ally; What We're Looking For Is A Stable, Democratic Government That Is Not Beholden To Anyone In The Region And Is Able To Be Secure Within Its Own Borders And Have Its Own Policy.

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.

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

Mr. Trump's A Good Man, But He Doesn't Know Much About The Health Care System.

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.

Look, Freedom Is An Overwhelming American Notion. The Idea That We Want To See The World, The Peoples Of The World Free Is Something That All Of Us Subscribe To.

Foreign Policy Is Like Human Relations, Only People Know Less About Each Other.

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.

Native American

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.

We Have The Greatest Resource Universities In The World, The Only Place In The World. We Have The Most Productive Workforce In The World. We Have The Most Agile Venture Capitalists In The World. We Have A Situation Where Right Now In The United States Of America, We Are Near Energy Independent. North America Is Beginning To Be The Epicenter Of Energy. What Is It That Makes People Think That This Is Not Going To Be The American Century? I Don't Get It.

Everyone Working 40 Hrs A Week Should Have A Shot At A Decent Life.

After 9-11, The President Had A Historic Opportunity To Unite Americans And The World In Common Cause. Instead, By Exploiting The Politics Of Fear, Instigating An Optional War In Iraq Before Finishing A Necessary War In Afghanistan And Instituting Policies On Torture, Detainees And Domestic Surveillance That Fly In The Face Of Our Values And Interests, President Bush Divided Americans From Each Other And From The World.

A Lucky Person Gets Up In The Morning, Puts Both Feet On The Floor, Knows What They're About To Do And Thinks It Still Matters.

I May Be Irish, But I'm Not Stupid.

It Is Unfortunate We Were Put In The Position Where The Republicans Made It Clear They Were Ready To Let Everything Fall Unless They Got These Tax Cuts.

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.

The American Public's A Lot More Sophisticated Than We All Give Them Credit For. And On Complicated Issues, I'm Going To Give Them Straight Answers. And If It Takes More Than Three Minutes, I'm Going To Do It.

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.

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.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society, For Nothing Suffocates The Promise Of America More Than Unbounded Cynicism And Indifference.

This Administration [of Barack Obama] Favors A Pluralistic World And Respects Cultural Differences, So It's Wrong For The West And American Elitists To Judge How Women Are Treated Under Sharia. I'm Going Too Long On All This, But I Choke Up On The President's Legacy Of Reaching Out To The Muslim World. It's An Emotional Thing.

Barack Obama Is Probably The Most Exciting Candidate That Either The Democratic Or Republican Party Has Produced At Least Since I've Been Around. He's Fresh, He's New, He's Insightful.

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

Politics Is A Damn Expensive Business. I Had One Hell Of A Time Trying To Raise Money As A Candidate. I Had To Put A Second Mortgage On Our House To Get That Campaign Started, And I Ended Up Spending Over $300,000 To Get Elected. I Believe That Public Financing Of Federal Election Campaigns Is The Only Thing That Will Insure Good Candidates And Save The Two-party System. It Is The Most Degrading Thing In The World To Go Out With Your Hat In Your Hand And Beg For Money, But That's What You Have To Do If You Haven't Got Your Own Resources.

I Also Acknowledge That Prejudice Runs Very Deep In Our Society. And, In The Real World, Discrimination Rears Its Ugly Head In The Shadows, Where It's Very Difficult To Root It Out.

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

Drug Prices Are A Problem. Access Is A Problem.

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.

What's Four Years In Our Long American History? Remember When I Asked That Wheelchair-bound Politician To "stand Up." It Turns Me Off When People Say Donald Trump Is Authentic. Just Because He Says "mexican Rapists." What About Me? I Am The Real Deal.

You Can't Go To Insurance Companies And Say, You Know What, We're Not Going To Change Anything Having To Do With The Pool From Which You - You Draw Your People. We're Not Going To Do Anything. But Guess What, You Can No Longer Allow For Pre-existing Conditions To Disqualify Somebody. And They Go, Oh. Ok. How Do I Pay For That?

I Should Start With An Apology To Rudy Giuliani. I Said Every Sentence Rudy Utters Has A Noun, A Verb, And 9/11 In It. I Was Wrong. He Called Me To Tell Me After Pat Robertson's Endorsement, There's An Amen In Every Sentence He Says Too.

When I Said Clean, I Meant He [barack Obama] Was Bright. Like When [donald] Trump Said About Carly [fiorina], "face" He Meant "persona."

The Recovery Act Is Working, But It's Going To Continue To Work. It's Not Over. A Lot's Going To Happen This Summer. And Even After The Summer, There's More To Come With The Act.

As A Matter Of Fact, I Didn't Make A Political Speech Outside Of My State For 20 Years.

To Me This Is The First Principle Of Life, The Foundational Principle, And A Lesson You Can't Learn At The Feet Of Any Wise Man: Get Up! The Art Of Living Is Simply Getting Up After You've Been Knocked Down.

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

Osama Bin Laden

Senator John Stennis: The Civil Rights Movement Did More To Free The White Man That The Black Man. ... It Freed My Soul.

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

Justice Sandra Day O'connor Brought Critical Qualities To The High Court That Not Everybody Thinks Are Qualities - I Happen To Think They Are - Her Pragmatism And Her State Craft.

You Turn On The Television, It's Like, "woah Is Me! God Almighty, We're Awful." We Are So Down And Out We Are - Name Me A Country In The World, Name Me One Leader Anywhere In The World Who Wouldn't Trade Places In A Heartbeat. We By Far, We're Going To Own The 21st Century.

The Iraqis Have Become Invested In Their Nationhood.

Well, I Thought The Deal Was, When You Went To Work For The Government You Weren't Supposed To Make Money!

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.

We Misread The Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] And Have Been Misreading It For The Past Three Decades.

Fifth Amendment

I Graduated From The University Of Delaware With A Double Major In History And Political Science.

For Too Long In This Society, We Have Celebrated Unrestrained Individualism Over Common Community.

Well, I Was 29 Years Old When I Came To The United States Senate, And I Have Learned A Lot.

I Remember George Mitchell - I Was Doing The Clarence Thomas Hearing, And There Were 48 Senators Declared They Were Not Prepared To Vote For Him At The Front End. We Could Have Filibustered That And Stopped It. George And I - George Was The Leader At The Time - Took The Heat From Every Liberal Group Saying, "no, No, That's Not The Way The System Is Supposed To Work, Since The Constitution - The President Shall Propose And The Constitution Shall Dispose, We're Going To Let Them Hear This."

If I Could Get Every Single Cancer Genome Sequence That Has Been Sequenced; If I Could Ever Put It In One Repository, We Have The Capacity To Do A Million Billion Calculations Per Second. We'll Be Able To Find Out More In 10 Minutes More Than It Would Take 10 Nobel Laureates 10 Years To Find Out About The Patterns Of Cancer And The Cures For Cancer.

To Be An Ally Is A Formal Military Alliance. And We Have A Formal Military Alliance In Nato. But We Are Partners With Other Countries All Across The World. And They're - They Will Be A Partner.

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.

She [justice Sandra Day O'connor], Unlike, Judge Bork, Did Not Think That Being On The Court Would Be An "intellectual Feast," To Quote Judge [robert Heron] Bork.

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.

Barack And I See A Future... Where No One, No One Is Forced To Live In The Shadows Of Intolerance.

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.

There Is No Question That I Would Be The Better President. But As For The Campaign, Are Americans Ready For A General Election In Which Both Major Party Candidates Are Add? Quite Frankly, It Could Provide An Opening For A Third Party Candidate, Maybe Someone Backed By The Evil Koch Brothers.

I Don't Expect The Government To Solve My Problems, But At Least I Expect Them To Understand It.

I Was Not An Activist.

The Reason I Talk So Much About The Middle Class Is It's The Glue That Holds America Together. It Really Is. And We Don't Speak Enough To Their Legitimate Concerns.

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.

I Was Part Of The Journey Of A Remarkable Man [barack Obama] Who Did Remarkable Things.

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.

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.

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.

I Am Not A Theologian, Nor Am I A Priest Or A Minister, But I Think Building Walls Is Fundamentally Contrary To What Made This Country What It Is. We're A Pluralistic Society In Its Functions.

I Think The Only Reason Clarence Thomas Is On The Court Is Because He Is Black

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.

Obama And Biden Want To Raise Taxes By A Trillion Dollars. Guess What? Yes, We Do In One Regard. We Want To Let That Trillion Dollar Tax Cut Expire So The Middle Class Doesn't Have To Bear The Burden Of All That Money Going To The Super-wealthy. That's Not A Tax Raise. That's Called Fairness Where I Come From.

I Do Not Believe That We Have A Right To Tell Other People, Women, That They Can't Control Their Bodies.

Stand Up, Chuck, Let Them See You.

Failure At Some Point In Your Life Is Inevitable, But Giving Up Is Unforgivable.

Vote For War Allowed War Only After All Else Failed.

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

Would Colonel [bernie] Sanders Honeymoon In The Soviet Union?

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