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My Own Father Had Always Said The Measure Of A Man Wasn't How Many Times Or How Hard He Got Knocked Down, But How Fast He Got Back Up. I Made A Pledge To Myself That I Would Get Up And Emerge From This Debacle Better For Having Gone Through It. I Would Live Up To The Expectation I Had For Myself. I Would Be The Kind Of Man I Wanted To Be.

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My Own Father Had Always Said The Measure Of A Man Wasn't How Many Times Or How Hard He Got Knocked Down, But How Fast He Got Back Up. I Made A Pledge To Myself That I Would Get Up And Emerge From This Debacle Better For Having Gone Through It. I Would Live Up To The Expectation I Had For Myself. I Would Be The Kind Of Man I Wanted To Be.

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Abusive Relationship

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It Should Be Heart-breaking To Every American That We Have A Frontrunner In The Presidential Race That Suggests There Will Be A Religious Test For Anybody Who Wishes To Come To Our Shores.

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Telling The Truth

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And Bobby [jindal] And I Are Both Catholics.

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

I Am Very Optimistic About - About Iraq. I Mean, This Could Be One Of The Great Achievements Of This Administration. You're Going To See 90,000 American Troops Come Marching Home By The End Of The Summer. You're Going To See A Stable Government In Iraq That Is Actually Moving Toward A Representative Government.

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.

I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

Well, I'm Telling Them Two Things. One Is That, Look, This Is Going To Be Something When The American People Realize - Once It's Passed - That, A, It Does Take Care Of Preexisting Conditions; B, You're Insurance Rates Aren't Going To Skyrocket; C, The Insurance Companies Aren't Going To Be Running The Show Like They Were Before; D, You're Going To Be In A Position Where You Can Keep Your Insurance That You Have. That Once The American Public Realizes That, You're Going To Get A Reward For This. They're Going To Be Rewarded.

Wealthy People Are Just As Patriotic As Poor People, I Honest To God Believe That.

My Recollection Is - And I'd Have To Confirm This - But I Don't Recall Paying Any Money To Go To Law School.

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.

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

In Presidential Campaign I Released A 65-page File From The Syracuse University College Of Law That Showed Poor Grades, Back In College, Also. If I Were Plagiarizing Consistently, My Grades Would Have Been Better.

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.

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.

I Am A Catholic. I Can't Say That Without Pointing Out That I Oppose Abortion With All My Heart And Soul. Bill Clinton Wanted Them Safe And Rare. Barack Obama Is Heartsick That So Many People He Knows Have Had Abortions. But We're All Pro-choice And Believe In Reproductive Freedom And Oppose The Republicans' War On Women.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One Of My Roles As Vice President Is To - Is To Be An Interlocutor With The Senate And The House Because Everybody Up There Knows I Respect Them And I Enjoy It. And I Have A Lot Of Good Friends On Both Sides Of The Aisle Up There.

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

Stop Talking About How You Care About People. Show Me Something. Show Me A Policy. Show Me A Policy Where You Take Responsibility.

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

For 70 Years There's Been A Consensus Among Scholars And The American People On A Reading To The Constitution That Protects The Right Of Privacy, The Autonomy Of Individuals, While At The Same Time Empowering The Federal Government To Protect The Less Powerful.

I Think It Is Manmade. I Think It's Clearly Manmade.

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