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...more Important Than The Deficit, More Important Then Healthcare-more Important Than Anything-we Have Got To Do Something About Our Energy Strategy. Because If We Permit The Climate To Continue To Warm At An Unsustainable Rate, And If We Keep On Doing What We're Doing Until We're Out Of Oil And We Haven't Made The Transition, Then It's Inconceivable To Me That Our Children And Grandchildren Will Be Able To Maintain The American Way Of Life And That The World Won't Be Much Fuller Of Resource-based Wars Of All Kinds.

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...more Important Than The Deficit, More Important Then Healthcare-more Important Than Anything-we Have Got To Do Something About Our Energy Strategy. Because If We Permit The Climate To Continue To Warm At An Unsustainable Rate, And If We Keep On Doing What We're Doing Until We're Out Of Oil And We Haven't Made The Transition, Then It's Inconceivable To Me That Our Children And Grandchildren Will Be Able To Maintain The American Way Of Life And That The World Won't Be Much Fuller Of Resource-based Wars Of All Kinds.

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You Know, By The Time You Become The Leader Of A Country, Someone Else Makes All The Decisions. ... You May Find You Can Get Away With Virtual Presidents, Virtual Prime Ministers, Virtual Everything.

I Will Get Things Done For America.... Faced With Apathy, I Will Take Action. Faced With Conflict, I Will Seek Common Ground.... Faced With Adversity, I Will Persevere. I Will Carry This Commitment With Me This Year. I Am An Americorps Volunteer.

I Wanted To Continue To Be Active On Those Things That I Cared About When I Was President Where I Could Still Have An Impact.

The Information Age Is, First And Foremost, An Education Age, In Which Education Must Start At Birth And Continue Throughout A Lifetime. Last Year, From This Podium, I Said That Education Has To Be Our Highest Priority. I Have Something To Say To Every Family Listening To Us Tonight: Your Children Can Go On To College.... Because Of The Things That Have Been Done, We Can Make College As Universal In The 21st Century As High School Is Today. And, My Friends, That Will Change The Face And Future Of America.

If One Candidate Is Appealing To Your Fears, And The Other One's Appealing To Your Hopes, You’d Better Vote For The Person Who Wants You To Think And Hope!

Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music And Arts Programs. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Do Math. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Read. And Most Important Of All, They're A Lot Of Fun.

I Would Never Approach A Small-breasted Woman.

Though Government Has An Important Role To Play In Meeting The Many Challenges That Remain Before Us, We Are Coming To Understand That No Organization, Including Government, Will Fully Succeed Without The Active Participation Of Each Of Us. Volunteers Are Vital To Enabling This Country To Live Up To The True Promise Of Its Heritage

When People Are Feeling Insecure, They'd Rather Have Someone Who Is Strong And Wrong Rather Than Somebody Who Is Weak And Right.

I Fully Share The Congress's Objective Of Promoting Nonproliferation And Combating Iran's Efforts To Acquire Weapons Of Mass Destruction (wmd) And Missile Delivery Systems. This Issue Remains At The Top Of The Agenda With Russia As Well As With Other Countries Whose Companies May Be Providing Such Assistance To Iran. In The Case Of Russian Entities' Cooperation With Iran, We Have Imposed Penalties Ten Times In The Past And Stand Ready To Apply Them Again Whenever Necessary.

We Simply Have To Transition From An Economy Based Almost Exclusively On Oil And Coal And Natural Gas To One That's Far More Diversified, That Uses Solar Energy, And Wind Energy, And The Power Of The Tides, And Bio-mass Energy, And Eventually, Develops Hydrogen.

Behind Every Great Man There Stands A Great Woman. Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Behind.

Behind Every Great Man

The Worst Thing About Not Being President Anymore Is I Was Disoriented For Three Weeks Because Nobody Every Played A Song When I Walked In.

No One Who Has Lived Through The Second Half Of The 20th Century Could Possibly Be Blind To The Enormous Impact Of Exchange Programs On The Future Of Countries.

41, You Look Great. Love What You're Doing.

Nothing We Do In This Great Capital Can Change The Fact That Factories Or Information Can Flash Across The World, That People Can Move Money Around In The Blink Of An Eye... Nothing Can Change The Fact That Technology Can Be Adopted, Once Created, By People All Across The World And Then Rapidly Adapted In New And Different Ways By People Who Have A Little Different Take On The Way That Technology Works.

We Simply Cannot Afford To Give The Reigns Of Government So Someone Who Will Double Down On Trickle Down

If You Want A Future Of Shared Prosperity, Where The Middle Class Is Growing And Poverty Is Declining, Where The American Dream Really Is Alive And Well Again, And Where The United States Remains The Leading Force For Peace And Justice And Prosperity In A Highly Competitive World, You Have To Vote For Barack Obama.

I've Gained First Hand Knowledge Of The Challenges Faced By People With Disabilities. It's Made Me Understand That Those Of Us Who Have Full Use Of Our Physical Faculties Owe An Enormous Amount Of Respect And Sensitivity To People Who Don't.

Let Us All Take More Responsibility Not Only For Ourselves And Our Families But For Our Communities And Our Country.

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