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Osama Bin Laden

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If We Do Nothing, We Are Handing Our Children A Ticking Time Bomb That Will Require They Pay Ever Greater Payroll Taxes Just As They Are Beginning Their Careers, Starting Their Own Families And Staking Their Claim To The American Dream.

Tolerance Of Dissent Is The Hallmark Of A Mature Party, And It Is Well Past Time For The Republican Party To Grow Up.

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I Will Veto Every Single Beer, Um, Bill With Earmarks.

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I Know The Veterans. I Know Them Well. And I Know That They Know That I'll Take Care Of Them. And I've Been Proud Of Their Support And Their Recognition Of My Service To The Veterans.

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We Were Pleased To Hear The President State His Firm Commitment That He Will Do Whatever Is Necessary To Accomplish This Important Goal.

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Responsibility Always Stops At The President's Desk.

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I Will Conduct A Respectful Debate. Now, It Will Be Dispirited -- It Will Be Spirited -- Because There Are Stark Differences. I Am A Proud Conservative, Liberal Republica-- Conservative Republican...hello? Easy There.

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Major League Baseball Players And Owners Should Meet Immediately To Enact The Standards That Apply To The Minor Leagues, And If They Don't, I Will Have To Introduce Legislation That Says Professional Sports Will Have Minimum Standards For Testing. I'll Give Them Until January, And Then I'll Introduce Legislation.

An Act Of Heroism, Of Extraordinary Courage, The Grandeur Of It, Won't Easily Inspire Us To Act In Imitation, But It Can Inspire Us To Emulate Its Author. For That, We Should Learn What We Can Of The Whole Experience Of The Subject, The Hero's Life, As It Was Before And After, And Believe That Trying To Emulate The Character It Reveals Is One Tried Way To Prepare For The Tests That Might Await Us And Gain Hope That Our Courage Will Not Be Wanting In The Moment.

We Must Be True To Ourselves. And We Must Be True To Others, Whether They Believe We Are Or Not.

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There Are Neighborhoods In Baghdad Where You And I Could Walk Through Those Neighborhoods Today.

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I Observed A Thousand Acts Of Courage, Compassion And Love [as A Pow] And I Will Always Treasure That Memory Above All Others.

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Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

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I Believe We're All Aware That There Are People And Organizations Throughout The World Who Are Bent On Destroying America, Everything We Stand For And Inflicting Harm On American Citizens. It Is The Obligation Of The President Of The United States To Respond To Those. I Believe, I Must Add, That This Adminstration For The Last Seven Months Has Neglected Compelling National Security Threats Besides This ... I Hope That The President Will Not Confine His Activities To Just This.

Cindy And I Are Adoptive Parents. We Know What A Treasure And Joy It Is To Have An Adopted Child In Our Lives.

As Long As There Is A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.

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The Only Way You Approach Politics And Seek Elective Office Is To Move Forward. For Me To Look Back In Anger Or With Any Rancor Would Be A Mistake.

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Some Urge We Do Nothing Because We Can't Be Certain How Bad The (climate) Problem Might Become Or They Presume The Worst Effects Are Most Likely To Occur In Our Grandchildren's Lifetime. I'm A Proud Conservative, And I Reject That Kind Of Live-for-today, 'me Generation,' Attitude. It Is Unworthy Of Us And Incompatible With Our Reputation As Visionaries And Problem Solvers. Americans Have Never Feared Change. We Make Change Work For Us.

The Cable Industry Has Risen To New Heights In Their Apparent Willingness And Ability To Gouge The American Consumer. Cable Rates [have] Increased An Unbelievable Five-and-a-half Times Faster Than Inflation.

I Will Not Agree To Have This Bill [to Repeal Dadt ] Go Forward, Because Our Economy Is In The Tank.

Democrats Proposing Failure In Iraq By Withdrawing.

Our Political Differences, Now Matter How Sharply They Are Debated, Are Really Quite Narrow In Comparison To The Remarkably Durable National Consensus On Our Founding Convictions.

Political Differences

I've Seen Enough Killing In My Life. I Know How Precious Human Life Is And I Don't Need A Lecture From You.

Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

I Have Said Many Times In The Past I Don't Choose To Be Vice President, Either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian Or Vegetarian.

I Can't Believe A Guy That Handsome Wouldn't Have Some Impact.

Our Enemies Didn't Adhere To The Geneva Convention. Many Of My Comrades Were Subjected To Very Cruel, Very Inhumane And Degrading Treatment, A Few Of Them Even Unto Death. But Every One Of Us - Every Single One Of Us - Knew And Took Great Strength From The Belief That We Were Different From Our Enemies, That We Were Better Than Them, That We, If The Roles Were Reversed, Would Not Disgrace Ourselves By Committing Or Countenancing Such Mistreatment Of Them.

Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.

Instead Of Giving The Effort The Level Of Attention Needed, The Air Force Has Wasted A Year Doing Very Little To End Our Reliance On Russian Rocket Engines, If The Air Force Is Unwilling To Do What Is Necessary To Meet The 2019 Deadline, They Are Going To Have To Figure Out How To Meet Our Space Launch Needs Without The Rd-180 (russian Engine).

Reducing Military Presence Has Never In History Won A War.

I Don't Use Coarse Language Very Often. I Have A Larger Vocabulary Than That.

There Is Always An Element Of Realpolitik That Has To Be Present In The Conduct Of Any Nation's National Security Affairs. At The Same Time, We Have To Also Have A Balance Between Realpolitik And Wilsonian Principles Of Freedom And Democracy And Human Rights. And Maintaining That Balance Is The Greatest Challenge That We In The West, Including The Federal Republic Of Germany, Have To Face Because It's Many Times A Very Difficult Decision-making Process.

I Think There [are] Great Economies That Can Be Made Starting With A Round Of Base Closings, ... I Want The President To Veto These Pork-barrel Spending Bills Which Have Grown To Incredible Obscene Levels. I Believe There Are A Number Of Weapons Systems That Have To Be Eliminated.

As Part Of My Misspent Youth, I Spent Too Much Time In The Sun, And Every Few Months, I Have To Go And Have Some Basal Cell Removed From My Old Craggy Features.

Stocks Have Tanked. Shouldn't You Have Asked For That Money Back?

We Make The Future Better Than The Past. We Don't Hide From History. We Make History.

The Us Does Not Involve Itself In What Is Happening In The World's Largest Democracy, Nor Does It Intend To Do So.

Just Because They Broke The Law Doesn't Mean They're Condemned Forever To A Twilight Status. So, I Think That Most Americans, If These People Who Have Come Illegally, As Long As They Pay Back Taxes, Pay A Fine, Learn English And Get Behind Everybody Else, That's A Key Element Of It. And Most Americans Now Realize We Can't Have 11 Million People Sit In The Twilight - The Shadows Of America, Forever.

I Would Like To Mention That A Couple Days Ago Senator Obama Was Out In Ohio And He Had An Encounter With A Guy Who's A Plumber, His Name Is Joe Wurzelbacher.

I Will Not Leave The Republican Party, ... The Republican Party Is My Home.

The President(obama) Comparing Him To A Kid In The Back Of A Classroom, I Think, Is Very Indicative Of The President's Lack Of Appreciation Of Who Vladimir Putin Is. He's An Old Kgb Colonel That Has No Illusions About Our Relationship, Does Not Care About A Relationship With The United States, Continues To Oppress His People, Continues To Act In An Autocratic Fashion.

I Was An Addict. That's Why, ... I Tell You, Addiction Is A Very Cunning Enemy.

Improve Human Intelligence To Get Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden

There Are 11 Million People Living In The Shadows. I Believe They Deserve To Come Out Of The Shadows. The Children Who Are Brought Here When They Were Children, They Deserve That Kind Of Consideration As Well.

I Have The Greatest Appreciation For Governor [sarah] Palin And Her Family. There's Great Joy To Know Them.

Events Are Moving Fast In My Campaign, And Yes, It's True That This Morning I've Dismissed My Entire Team Of Senior Advisers. All Of Their Positions Will Now Be Held By A Man Named 'joe The Plumber.'

The Russians Are Succeeding In Continuing Their Dismemberment Of Ukraine, They're Succeeding In Exerting Enormous Influence In The Middle East, Which They Never Had Before. They Are Succeeding - They Have Succeeded In Interfering With Our Election, And We Know That They Continue That In The French Elections And Other Elections. And So Far They Have Paid A Little Or No Penalty For All Of This Misbehavior.

I Spent Most Of My Time Wrestling Looking Up At The Lights.

Stategy In Iraq- Defeat Al-qaeda; Limit Iran's Influence.

America Is The Greatest Force For Good In The History Of The World.

There's Going To Be Other Wars. I'm Sorry To Tell You, There's Going To Be Other Wars. We Will Never Surrender, But There Will Be Other Wars.

You Know That Old Beach Boys Song, Bomb Iran? Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.

Only A Fool Or A Fraud Talks Tough Or Romantically About War.

After All This Time And All This, Quote, "experience," How Is She [hillary Clinton] Not Better At This [military]?

Thank God For The Saudis And Prince Bandar, And For Our Qatari Friends.

At No Time Have I Ever Done Anything That Would Betray The Public Trust.

I Think That When You Look At The Great Politicians, The Two Greatest In My View Were George Washington And Abraham Lincoln, They Certainly Had Character Traits. You Also Know Abraham Lincoln Overcame Severe Depression Problems That He Had When He Was Younger, Which Gave Him The Strength And The Character Later On.

We Will Have To Wait A Little Longer To See If Armageddon Has Arrived.

Torture Gives You Reliable And Unreliable Information. That's The Reason Why Most People In The World Don't Do It. So This Idea That You Have To Torture People In Order To Protect National Security Is A False Argument, And I Reject It.

Do We Really Want Another Politician In The White House America Can't Trust?

Europeans Are Greater Than They Have Been Since Any Time Since The End Of The Cold War.

The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

We Need More Competitive Races, ... We Need The Voice Of Moderation.

The Majority Of [the Troops In Iraq] Is That Feel They're Doing The Right Thing And Their Parents Who Have Also Made Sacrifices, Generally Speaking, And Their Proud Of The Services Of Their Sons And Daughters.

We Are Americans First, Americans Last, And Americans Always.

But I Also Want To Change The Dynamics Of This Debate, Which Has Kept Us Gridlocked Into Positions Which Caused People To Shoot At Abortion Clinics And Other Americans To View It As The Only Issue In American Politics, ... There Are Areas We Can Agree On. ... We Need To Work Together To Eliminate Abortion.

It's Not Social Issues I Care About.

I Have The Utmost Confidence In General Mattis, General Flynn, General Kelly, Dan Coates. I Couldn't Have Picked A Better Team. And So I'm Confident That Donald Trump Will Listen To Them And Be Guided By Them.

Despite Occasional Policy Differences Between Us, I Have Long Respected Jim Jeffords' Integrity, And His Conscientious Service To His Constituents And To The Nation.

I'm Ashamed That Congress Finds Billions For Pork-barrel Subsidies But Fails To Find Money For Veterans' Health Care.

Even In This Room Full Of Proud Manhattan Democrats. I Can't Shake That Feeling That Some People Here Are Pulling For Me ... I'm Delighted To See You Here Tonight, Hillary.

We Should Be Able To Deliver Bottled Hot Water To Dehydrated Babies.

Sarah Palin Knows More About Energy Than Probably Anyone Else In The United States Of America.

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