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President Obama Has Made It His Mission That We Welcome Our Troops Home With Care, And Concern, And The Respect They Deserve. That Is How An Exceptional Nation Says "thank You" To Its Most Exceptional Men And Women.

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President Obama Has Made It His Mission That We Welcome Our Troops Home With Care, And Concern, And The Respect They Deserve. That Is How An Exceptional Nation Says "thank You" To Its Most Exceptional Men And Women.

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This President Has Made, I Regret To Say, A Colossal Error Of Judgment. And Judgment Is What We Look For In The President Of The President Of The United States Of America.

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It Appears That With The Deadline For Exile Come And Gone, Saddam Hussein Has Chosen To Make Military Force The Ultimate Weapons Inspections Enforcement Mechanism. If So, The Only Exit Strategy Is Victory, This Is Our Common Mission And The World's Cause.

This Revolution Began With Young People In Syria Demonstrating Because They Wanted A Future. They Wanted Opportunity, Education, And So Forth. They Went Out And They Did It. Thugs Came Out And Beat Them Up. The Parents Got Angry That The Thugs Beat The Kids Up, And They Went Out And Demonstrated, And They Were Met With Bullets. They Were Killed. That's How This Began.

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Developing Countries

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[bashar] Assad Has Made A Series Of Choices Ever Since Then That Is Literally Destroying His Country.

My Dad Was A Member Of The Greatest Generation That Achieved Victory In World War Ii. This Was The Generation That Saved The World From Fascism, Came Home And Built The Great American Middle Class, Led The Way In The Civil Rights Movement, Protected Our Environment, And Created Great Programs Like Medicare.

We Achieved A Deal With The Russians That Didn't Wind Up In Two Days Of Strikes That Would Have Sent A, Quote, "message," But Would Not Have Removed The Weapons. We Struck A Deal To Get All Of The Declared Weapons Out Of Syria. Never Before In A Conflict Has That Ever Happened, That During The Conflict Weapons Of Mass Destruction Are Taken Out Of The Zone Of Conflict. And Thank God We Did That, Because If We Hadn't Done That, Today Isil Would Have Those Chemical Weapons In Large Parts Of The Country.

There's An Agreement That Syria Should Be A Unified Country, United; That It Needs To Be Secular; That Isil Needs To Be Taken On; And That There Needs To Be A Managed Transition, But There Is A Difference Obviously In What That Means And What That Outcome May Or May Not Be.

I Don't Believe We Need A Good Conservative Judge, And I Don't Believe We Need A Good Liberal Judge. I Subscribe To The Justice Potter Stewart Standard. He Was A Justice On The Supreme Court Of The United States. And He Said The Mark Of A Good Judge, Good Justice, Is That When You're Reading Their Decision, Their Opinion, You Can't Tell If It's Written By A Man Or Woman, A Liberal Or A Conservative, A Muslim, A Jew Or A Christian. You Just Know You're Reading A Good Judicial Decision.

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I'm Against The Partial-birth Abortion, But You've Got To Have An Exception For The Life Of The Mother And The Health Of The Mother Under The Strictest Test Of Bodily Injury To The Mother.

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I Know Something About Killing. I Don't Like Killing. And I Don't Think A State Honors Life By Turning Around And Sanctioning Killing.

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We Have An Electorate That Doesn't Always Pay That Much Attention To What's Going On So People Are Influenced By A Simple Slogan Rather Than The Facts Or Truth Or What's Happening.

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As I Have Said For Two Years Now, When Osama Bin Laden And Al-qaeda Were Cornered In The Mountains Of Tora Bora, It Was Wrong To Outsource The Job Of Capturing Them To Afghan Warlords Who A Week Earlier Were Fighting Against Us.

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I Heard Katty Kay's Name And I Know Katty Kay Said We Didn't Have A Plan. Well, There Is A Plan, And The President [barack Obama] Is Moving Forward With Any Number Of Options And Ways To Augment Our Efforts On Isil.

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Mass Destruction

Guarantees That

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Mass Destruction

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I Will Never Cede The Authority Of Our Country Or Our Security To Any Other Nation. I'll Never Give A Veto Over American Security To Any Other Entity - Not A Nation, Not A Country, Not An Institution.

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We Cannot Continue To See The Middle East In The Context Of 9/11. We Must See It In The Context Of 2011.

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This Fight Against Drilling In The Arctic Refuge Is A Fight About Our Principles. Its About Standing Up For Our Environment, Our Families And Our Future, And I Wont Give Up This Fight.

This Is Deeply Disturbing. Congress Provided Loans To Help Businesses Hurt By The Sept. 11 Attacks, Not To Be Used As An Accounting Gimmick To Cover Up This Administration's Failure To Provide For Small Businesses.

We Need To Talk To All The Players In The Middle East, Not Because We Agree With Them, But Because They Play A Role.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

My Hope Is The Trump Administration Will Approach Russia Strategically, With A Clear Purpose Of Trying To Find More Common Ground, But Without Giving Up On Fundamental Values And Principles That Are At The Core Of The United States' Foreign Policy.

How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die In Vietnam? How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die For A Mistake?

The Reagan Administration Has No Rational Plan For Our Military. Instead, It Acts On Misinformed Assumptions About The Strength Of The Soviet Military And A Presumed 'window Of Vulnerability,' Which We Now Know Not To Exist.

Climate Change Is Real. The Science Is Compelling. And The Longer We Wait, The Harder The Problem Will Be To Solve.

We Will Not Be Derailed By Criminal Anarchists Who Legitimately Claim A Religious Cause.

I Will Not Stop In Our Efforts To Hunt Down And Kill The Terrorists.

We Can't Change Minds Without Knowing What's In Them.

Nafta Recognizes The Reality Of Today's Economy - Globalization And Technology. Our Future Is Not In Competing At The Low-level Wage Job; It Is In Creating High-wage, New Technology Jobs Based On Our Skills And Our Productivity.

You Might Not See Climate Change As An Immediate Threat To Your Job, Your Community, Or Your Families," Kerry Said. "but Let Me Tell You, It Is." He Continued, "climate Change Is Directly Related To The Potential Of Greater Conflict And Greater Instability. I'm Telling You That There Are People In Parts Of The World - In Africa Today, They Fight Each Other Over Water. They Kill Each Over It. And If Glaciers Are Melting And There's Less Water Available And More People, That Is A Challenge We Have To Face.

Mitt Romney Says He Believes In America And That He Will Restore American Exceptionalism. I Have News For Him, We Already Have An Exceptional American As President And We Believe In Barack Obama.

It's The [george Bush] President's Fiscal Policies That Have Driven Up The Biggest Deficits In American History. He's Added More Debt To The Debt Of The United States In Four Years Than All The Way From George Washington To Ronald Reagan Put Together.

The Race For The White House Should Be About Leadership, And Leadership Requires That One Help Heal The Wounds Of Vietnam, Not Reopen Them.

Too Many People In America Believe That If You Are Pro-choice That Means Pro-abortion. It Doesn't. I Don't Want Abortion. Abortion Should Be The Rarest Thing In The World. I Am Actually Personally Opposed To Abortion. But I Don't Believe That I Have A Right To Take What Is An Article Of Faith To Me And Legislate It To Other People. That's Not How It Works In America.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Others, Knew How To Lead. They Knew How To Ask The American People For The Right Things.

If Saddam Hussein Is Unwilling To Bend To The International Community's Already Existing Order, Then He Will Have Invited Enforcement, Even If That Enforcement Is Mostly At The Hands Of The United States, A Right We Retain Even If The Security Council Fails To Act.

I'm Going To Be Honest With You - I Don't Know A Lot About Cuba's Healthcare System. Is It A Government-run System?

If Russia Is There [in Syria] Alone Fighting Them [isil], Guess What? Russia Becomes The Target And Russia Starts Seeing - Who Knows - Manpads Will Find Their Way In There, Airplanes Will Fall Out Of The Sky. They Will Become Vilified. They'll Become The New Magnet, Together With Assad, For The Jihadis.

The Hope Is There. The Sun Is Rising. Our Best Days Are Yet To Come.

America Must Always Be The World's Paramount Military Power. But We Can Magnify Our Power Through Alliances.

If You Think I Would Have Gone To War The Way George Bush Did, Don't Vote For Me.

There Is No Bigger Judgment For A President Of The United States Than How You Take A Nation To War.

It's Likely That People Will Say We're All Interested In Destroying - Isil Is A Threat To Everybody. There Isn't One Country In The Region That Doesn't Despise What Isil Stands For And Is Doing And That Doesn't Want To Eliminate Them.

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Guarantees That

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I Met With Many Of - A Number Of [syrian] Refugees In Berlin The Other Day, And I Was Struck By How Educated, Intelligent, And Patriotic They Are. They Want To Go Back. They Love Their Country. And There Are So Many Of Them Still In Jordan And In Refugee Camps In Lebanon And In Turkey, That If You Could Create The Climate Within Which They Could Begin To Come Back, I Believe There Is Such A History Of Secularism Within Syria, Even Tolerance Within Syria, That If We Can Deal With Isil, Yes. That's The Key. And With Isil There, Not A Chance.

Politics Has Always Been The Art Of The Possible. Today It's Too Often The Art Of The Probable - Tinkering Around The Edges Without Any Greater Vision, Without A Sense Of Optimism And Imagination.

Values Spoken Without Actions Taken Are Merely Slogans.

Folks, Sarah Palin Said She Could See Russia From Alaska. Mitt Romney Talks Like He's Only Seen Russia By Watching 'rocky Iv.'

I Figured Out Karl Rove's Political Strategy -- Make Gas So Expensive, No Democrats Can Afford To Go To The Polls.

And If [vladimir Putin] Does Fight Isil Alone, How Does It Work Out For Russia To Have Sided With Assad, Sided With Iran, Sided With Hizballah, When They're Trying To Reach Out To The Rest Of The Sunni World In The Region? That's Not A Good Equation For Russia.

The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real, But As I Said, It Is Not New. It Has Been With Us Since The End Of That War, And Particularly In The Last 4 Years We Know After Operation Desert Fox Failed To Force Him To Reaccept Them, That He Has Continued To Build Those Weapons. He Has Had A Free Hand For 4 Years To Reconstitute These Weapons, Allowing The World, During The Interval, To Lose The Focus We Had On Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Issue Of Proliferation.

Mass Destruction

George Bush's Vision Does Not Live Up To The America I Enlisted In The Navy To Defend, The America I Have Fought For In The Senate, And The America That I Hope To Lead As President.

I'm For Ethanol, And I Think It's A Very Important Partial Ingredient Of The Overall Mix Of Alternative And Renewable Fuels We Ought To Commit To.

You Can't Have Responsibility And You Can't Have Us Living Up To Our Ideals Unless It's Based On A Fairly Common Acceptance Of Truth, Of What Is True - What Is The Truth Here?

There Are All Kinds Of Atrocities, And I Would Have To Say That, Yes, Yes, I Committed The Same Kind Of Atrocities As Thousands Of Other Soldiers Have Committed In That I Took Part In Shootings In Free Fire Zones. I Conducted Harassment And Interdiction Fire.

It's Hard To Say That Something Is Legitimate When A Whole Portion Of The Country Can't Vote And Doesn't Vote.

We Are All Proud Of Is World War Ii Where We Went In, We Were Decisive, We Came To The Conclusion That Freedom Prevailed, And We Were Heroes.

Terrorist Organizations With Specific Political Agendas May Be Encouraged And Emboldened By Yasser Arafat's Transformation From Outlaw To Statesman.

We Need A Leader Who Has A Sense Of Balance, An Understanding Of The Ebb And Flow Of History And A Sense Of Our Country's Unique Place In It. This Is A Foreign Policy Debate, And You Cannot Conduct Foreign Policy Without A Sense Of What We Are Fighting For. And Any President Who Can Reduce The Conduct Of This Country's Affairs To A Morning's Attack By A Bunch Of Demented Fascists Does Not, In My View, Understand What This Great Nation Is All About.

You'd Be Amazed At The Number Of People Who Want To Introduce Themselves To You In The Men's Room. It's The Most Bizarre Part Of This Entire Thing.

I Still Believe Americas Destiny Is To Become A Living Testament To What Free Human Beings Can Accomplish By Acting In Unity.

And It Is Time For Those Who Talk About Family Values To Start Valuing Families.

Democrats Proposing Success In Iraq By Political Solution.

We Cannot Fight Communism All Over The World, And I Think We Should Have Learned That Lesson By Now.

The Fact Is That You Literally, By Definition, Cannot Have A Jewish State And A Democratic State And Have A Whole Bunch Of Palestinians In It Who Are Living Under Military Rule While The Rest Of The Country Is Living Under Civil Rule, And They Have Different Rights And Different - It's Just Not A Democracy.

That's What I Am Standing Up For - Israel's Future As A Jewish And Democratic State Living Side-by-side In Peace And Security With Its Neighbors.

America That Has Done More To Support Israel Than Any Other Country Cannot Be True To Our Own Values If We Allow A Viable Two-state Solution To Be Destroyed Before Our Own Eyes.

Three-quarters Of [bashar Assad] Country Is Displaced. It's In Jordan, It's In Lebanon, It's In Turkey, And In The Desert. The Threat Is That Those People In The Desert And Others Could Become The Next Acolytes Of Isil If We Don't Find A Way To Join Together To Go After Isil.

I Had A Chance To Talk With President [vladimir] Putin And He Clearly Said To Me Very Directly, "i Will Think About That. I Will Think About This Challenge Of How We Win." Look, This Is Not Easy For Putin. Everybody Says, "oh, Putin's Made A Big Move." Well, Putin Is [in Syria] Now; And If He Wants To Fight Isil Alone, That's A Challenge, Folks.

I Think That All Of The Cyber Attacks That Are Taking Place, But Particularly This - The Russian One, Had A Profound Impact On The American System, On Our Political Process, On Our - It Invaded The Space Of Our Election. The Releasing On A Regular Basis Of One Party's Stolen Emails Had An Impact, And I Think That Other Things Also Had An Impact.

I’ve Often Said That Global Climate Change Is An Issue Where No One Has The Luxury Of Being “half-pregnant.” You Either Are Or You Aren’t. And So It Is With Climate Change. You Either Understand And Accept The Science – Or You Don’t. Folks This Isn’t A Cafeteria Where You Can Pick And Choose And Accept The Science That Tells Us What Is Happening, But Then Reject The Science That Warns Us What Will Happen.

If We Don't Go Far Enough Fast Enough, The Damage We Inflict Could Take Centuries To Undo - If It Can Be Undone At All.

Remember The Hours After September 11th When We Came Together As One To Answer The Attack Against Our Homeland. We Drew Strength When Our Firefighters Ran Upstairs And Risked Their Lives So That Others Might Live; When Rescuers Rushed Into Smoke And Fire At The Pentagon; When The Men And Women Of Flight 93 Sacrificed Themselves To Save Our Nation's Capitol; When Flags Were Hanging From Front Porches All Across America, And Strangers Became Friends. It Was The Worst Day We Have Ever Seen, But It Brought Out The Best In All Of Us.

It's Hard To Believe That In The Greatest Democracy In The World, We Need Legislation To Prevent The Government From Writing And Paying For The News.

[bashar] Assad Himself Has Said On Several Occasions Recently That If The People Of Syria Don't Believe I Should Be There In The Future, Then I Would Step - I Would Leave. He Has Said It. He Has, On Occasion, Hinted That He Wants A Political Settlement Of One Kind Or Another. I Think It's Up To His Supporters, His Strongest Supporters, To Make It Clear To Him That If You're Going To Save Syria, Assad Has Made A Set Of Choices - Barrel Bombing Children, Gassing His People, Torturing His People, Engaging In Starvation As A Tactic Of War.

Here I Am In The State Of New Mexico. George Bush Is Still In The State Of Denial. New Mexico Has Five Electoral Votes. The State Of Denial Has None. I Like My Chances.

George Bush Sold Us On Going To War With Iraq Based On The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction. But We Still Haven't Found Them.

Mass Destruction

If America Is At War, I Won't Speak A Word Without Measuring How It'll Sound To The Guys Doing The Fighting When They're Listening To Their Radios In The Desert.

In The Middle Of The Cavernous Cargo Hold Was A Simple, Aluminum Coffin With A Small American Flag Draped Over It. We Were Bringing Another American Soldier, Just Killed, Home To His Family And Final Resting Place. The Starkness Of His Coffin In The Center Of The Hold, The Silence Except For The Din Of The Engines, Was A Real Time Cold Reminder Of The Consequences Of Decisions For Which We Senators Share Responsibility.

You Just Don't In The 21st Century Behave In 19th Century Fashion By Invading Another Country On Completely Trumped Up Pre-text.

I Think That Our Own Crisis Of Democracy Is In Its Own Way Affecting Our Ability To Leverage In The Same Way That We Used To In The World.

I Will Never Conduct A War Or Start A War Because We Want To; The United States Of America Should Only Go To War Because We Have To. And If You Live By That Guidance, You'll Never Have Veterans Throwing Away Their Medals Or Standing Up In Protest.

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