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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.

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You Guys At Fox Can't Seem To Get Your Facts Straight.

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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.

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.

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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.

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Everyone Plagiarizes Me. Ever Since I Wrote My Autobiography.

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Stand Up, Chuck, Let Them See You.

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

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This Is A Big F...ing Deal!

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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.

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I Agree With Donna Brazile Who Said About Benghazi: "we Got To Preven Dis From Hapinin Agen. "

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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.

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Domestic Violence

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?

The Middle East Is Hopeful. There's Hope There.

Banning Guns Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

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.

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.

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

I Think After Sam Nunn Left, I'm The Last Guy In The Senate Who Got A Majority White Male Vote In Their State.

I Always Judge People Who Spend A Lot Of Time In Public Office Say They Care About Things, If The Day After They Leave, They No Longer Talk About Them, Then I Don't Think They Cared Much About Them.

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.

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.

When Nixon Declared The War On Cancer, He Had No Army. He Had No Tools. He Had No Anything, Except Good Intentions.

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To Start To Look More Focused On The Good That's Been Done And Can Be Done.

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

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I Mean, You Got The First Mainstream African-american Who Is Articulate And Bright And Clean And A Nice-looking Guy. I Mean, That's A Storybook, Man.

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I Used To Stand In Front Of The Mirror In My Bedroom. I Shared A Bedroom - Like A Lot Of People In My Era, In My Neighborhood - With My Two Brothers And An Uncle. And I'd Stand There In Front Of The Mirror Over The Dresser And I Would Practice: Meek Young Men Grow Up In Libraries, Believing It Their Duty To Accept The Views Of Cicero, Bacon And Baba.

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

You Know, The Eleven Million People Living In The Shadows, I Believe, They're Already American Citizens... These People Are Just Waiting, Waiting For A Chance To Contribute Fully. And By That Standard Alone Eleven Million Undocumented Aliens Are Already Americans In My View.

I Believe The Measure Of A Man Isn't Just The Road He's Traveled; It's The Choices He's Made Along The Way.

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.

Don't Be Intimidated By Power, Wealth Or Station, Character Alone Makes All The Difference.

We Spent $100 Billion On Education, Saving The Education System 300,000 Teachers Who Were Laid Off Because Of The Recession. We Also Put Tens Of Thousands Of Lower Income Kids In College Through Pell Grants Which Has Fundamentally All Their Opportunity. We Did The Same Thing With Regard To What We Did On Transportation. So We Weren't Just Trying To - We Knew We Had To Do Something Big To Keep Us From Going Over The Cliff Into A Depression And Pull Us Out Of Hole.

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.

There's A Lot Of Revisionist History That Goes On These Days About Iraq.

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

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

Guess What, The Cheerleaders In College Are The Best Athletes In College. You Think, I'm Joking, They're Almost All Gymnasts, The Stuff They Do On Hard Wood, It Blows My Mind.

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

The Devastating Punch We Took On September 11th Still Reverberates Throughout American Society.

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.

Based On My Own Experiences, I Made Sure, And I'm Proud Of This, That The Common Core Curriculum Is Hard On Plagiarizers.

The Fundamental Disagreement Most Republicans Have Is They Don't Think Health Care Is A Right. They Think It Is A Privilege, Not A Right.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

Partitioning Iraq Is Inevitable, As Shown By History.

I Don`t Know What Donal Trump Motive Is But I Know What He`s Preaching Is A Very, Very Dangerous Brew For America. Is This Just A Guy Doing Celebrity Apprentice For Himself? Is This Just A Guy Who`s An Entertainer? It May Have Started There But I Now Think He Wants To Be President. Also, I Don`t Think There`s Much Chance Of That.

I Always Wonder When It Was That I Was Embraced.

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.

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.

My Dad Sold Automobiles As A General Manager Of A General Motors Automobile Dealership. He Was A Job Creator. Everyone Of Those Cars He Sold He Created A Job For Somebody On The Assembly Line.

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.

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.

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

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