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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.

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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.

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But All Our Differences Hardly Measure Up To The Values We All Hold In Common.

It's Why We Oppose Citizens United From That Right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I Also Said The Tea Party "acted Like Terrorists" And Called A Donut Shop Manager In Milwaukee Who Wanted Lower Taxes A "smartass." And I Said The Number One Issue Is A Three-letter Word, J-o-b-s." I'm Proud Of Who I Am.

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.

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.

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.

A Gaffe In Washington Is Someone Telling The Truth, And Telling The Truth Has Never Hurt Me.

Telling The Truth

If I Can Invent A Phrase Then This Democrat [bernie] Sanders Takes Her [hillary Clinton] Off The Hook On The Emails. Could There Still Be An Fbi Indictment? Probably Not.

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

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.

This Republican Kevin Mccarthy Makes Hillary [clinton] The Victim.

Folks, I Can Tell You I've Known Eight Presidents, Three Of Them Intimately.

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.

Our Future Cannot Depend On The Government Alone. The Ultimate Solutions Lie In The Attitudes And The Actions Of The American People.

Hillary Clinton Is As Qualified Or More Qualified Than I Am To Be Vice President Of The United States Of America. Let's Get That Straight. She's A Truly Close Personal Friend. She Is Qualified To Be President Of The United States Of America. She's Easily Qualified To Be Vice President Of The United States Of America. Quite Frankly, It Might Have Been A Better Pick Than Me. But She's First Rate.

The Point Being We Used To Have A System That Wasn't As Rigged In How The Tax Structure Functioned. The President [barack Obama] And I Have Been Trying To Get Rid Of Some Of These Loopholes For Some Time. Look, We Have To Change The Corporate Culture.

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.

All You Need Is A Double Barrel

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

Vote For War Allowed War Only After All Else Failed.

If You're In A Confined Aircraft; When One Person Sneezes, It Goes All The Way Through The Aircraft.

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

Every Republican’s Voted For It. Look At What They Value And Look At Their Budget And What They’re Proposing. Romney Wants To Let The – He Said In The First 100 Days He’s Going To Let The Big Banks Once Again Write Their Own Rules – Unchain Wall Street. They’re Gonna Put You All Back In Chains.

When You Question A Man's Motives, When You Say They Are Acting Out Of Greed, They Are In The Pocket Of An Interest Group, Et Cetera. It's Awful Hard To Reach Consensus. It's Awful Hard To Reach Across The Table And Shake Hands. No Matter How Bitterly You Disagree, Though, It Is Always Possible If You Question Judgment And Not Motive.

Apologized For Saying Barack Obama Was Clean And Articulate.

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.

There Is A Middle Class In America For Only One Reason: Organized Labor. If Not For Organized Labor, Where Would You Find A Job Where You Had Some Sense That You Had A Shot Of Leaving Behind Something Better Than You Inherited?.

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

Osama Bin Laden

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.

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.

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