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We Also Wanted To Change The Story - Change The Approach To The 21st Century On Energy, On Education, On Transportation, On Infrastructure, Generally, And It Laid The Groundwork For That. And One Of The Reasons I'm Doing This Trip Is Not Only To Say What We Did Worked, But To Say We Should Do More Of This.

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We Also Wanted To Change The Story - Change The Approach To The 21st Century On Energy, On Education, On Transportation, On Infrastructure, Generally, And It Laid The Groundwork For That. And One Of The Reasons I'm Doing This Trip Is Not Only To Say What We Did Worked, But To Say We Should Do More Of This.

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

Should We Have Border Security There? Yes. But The Idea Of The United States Erecting A Wall For The World To See Makes A Lie Of Everything We Say About Ourselves. It's A Little Bit Like Why The President [barack Obama] And I Feel So Strongly About Closing Guantanamo. It Is Inconsistent With Who We Are.

I Was Angry. I Was Kind Of Looking For A Fight. I Didn't Want To Talk To You Guys In The Press, Because Initially, Understandably, All They Wanted To Talk To Me About Was, You Know, What Does It Feel Like?

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.

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.

In My Neighborhood, When You've Got Something To Say To A Guy, You Look Him In The Eye And You Say It To Him.

When Violence Against Women Is No Longer Societally Accepted, No Longer Kept Secret; When Everyone Understands That Even One Case Is Too Many. That's When It Will Change.

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

Over The Objections, Where They Sound Like Squealing Pigs, Over The Objections Of Romney And All His Allies, We Passed Some Of The Toughest Wall Street Regulations In History, Turning Wall Street Back Into The Allocator Of Capital It Always Has Been And No Longer A Casino. And They Want To Repeal It.

One Role Of Government Is To Go Where Venture Capital Won't.

Presumptuous For Me To Say, But At Least - At A Minimum - I've Been Able To Influence The Direction Of The Democratic Party On Foreign Policy. And I've Been Relatively - Presumptuous To Say - Relatively Successful Legislatively In The Senate, Being Able To Win A Lot Of Republican Friends, And Being Able To Cross The Aisle.

Some Of My Best Friends Are Jewish Contributors To The Democratic Party.

But People Turn On Their Televisions. They Turn On Their Televisions And They See What's Happening In Iraq. The American People Are Not Stupid. And The One Thing They Understand, They Understand How Incredibly Mismanaged And Bungled This War Has Been By The Civilians In This Administration. And - I Mean, You Can't Paper Over That, Any More Than You Can Paper Over Katrina.

I'm Confident Because Of The - What We [usa Government] Call The Strategic Agreement We're Now Working On With Them, We Will Be Deeply Involved Within Every Aspect Of Their Government From Helping Them Improve Their Agriculture, To Train Air Traffic Controllers, To Train Pilots For The F-16s They're Buying. So We'll Have A Deep Relationship.

You Turn On The Television, It's Like, "woah Is Me! God Almighty, We're Awful." We Are So Down And Out We Are - Name Me A Country In The World, Name Me One Leader Anywhere In The World Who Wouldn't Trade Places In A Heartbeat. We By Far, We're Going To Own The 21st Century.

We Are Working To Deploy A Powerful New Radar Network With American Early Warning Systems.

I Didn't Make A Political Speech Outside Of My State For 20 Years. And I Just Focused Almost Exclusively On My Initiatives For National Crime Legislation, Foreign Policy Issues.

For A President Not To Have Confidence In, Not To Be Prepared To Listen To The Myriad Of Intelligence Agencies From Defense Intelligence, To The Cia, Etcetera, Is Absolutely Mindless. It's Just Mindless.

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

We Are Boston. We Are America. We Respond. We Endure. We Overcome. And We Own The Finish Line.

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.

I Can Die A Happy Man Never Having Been President Of The United States Of America. But It Doesn't Mean I Won't Run.

One Of The Reasons To Pick The Cancer Effort Is To Demonstrate To People That There's Not Much Beyond Our Capacity. It Will Take Time, But If We Focus, If We Narrow Down Where The Bottle Necks Are And We Move, There's Never Been A Problem We Can't Solve.

They're Just Beginning To Change - Drug Companies.

I Must Express My Protest Against Continually Increasing The Debt Without Taking Positive Steps To Slow Its Growth.

How I Learned To Love The New World Order.

World Government

No Matter How You Cut It, This Real Debate On Personal Accounts Is About The Legitimacy Of Social Security; It's Not About The Solvency Of Social Security.

The Most Powerful Military In The World Cannot Invade, Kill Or Capture A Network Or Destroy Every Loose Weapon On The Planet. The Best Response To This Network Of Terror Is To Build A Network Of Our Own -- A Network Of Like-minded Countries And Organizations That Pools Resources, Information, Ideas, And Power. Taking On The Radical Fundamentalists Alone Isn't Necessary, It Isn't Smart, And It Won't Succeed.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

My Dad Always Said, 'champ, The Measure Of A Man Is Not How Often He Is Knocked Down, But How Quickly He Gets Up.'

No Foreign Policy Can Be Sustained In The United States Of America Without The Informed Consent Of The American People. And Informed Means Just That, Successes And Failure, A Realistic Assessment Of Where We Are And What The President Plans To Do About It.

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

You Get A Lawyer Whether You're In A Military Tribunal Or Whether You're In A Federal Court, Number One. The Attorney General Decided That The Court With The Biggest - With The Greatest Venue, With The Best Jurisdiction Was The New York Court. That Was The Right Decision To Make.

America Doesn't Have Health Insurance.

President Clinton Bankrupted Chrysler So That Italians Could Buy It To Ship Jobs Overseas To China.

Plan B Is If Hillary [clinton] Is Indicted. Then, Even If I Missed The Deadlines For The First Couple Of Primaries, I'll Be There To Rescue The Party. All Bets Are Off.

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.

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.

Social Security's Not The Hard One To Solve. Medicare, That Is The Gorilla In The Room, And You've Got To Put All Of It On The Table.

The Average Voter Out There Understands That The Next President Is Going To Have To Be Prepared To Immediately Step In Without Hesitation And End Our Involvement In Iraq. It's Very Difficult To Figure Out How To Move On To Broader Foreign Policy Concerns Without Fixing Iraq First.

What's Four Years In Our Long American History? Remember When I Asked That Wheelchair-bound Politician To "stand Up." It Turns Me Off When People Say Donald Trump Is Authentic. Just Because He Says "mexican Rapists." What About Me? I Am The Real Deal.

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.

I Believe At Its Core We Have A Constitution, As Our Supreme Court's First Great Justice, Marshall, Said In 1819, And I Quote, "intended To Endure For The Ages To Come And Consequently To Be Adapted To The Various Crises Of Human Affairs."

I'm Joking, I'm Joking. Best Decision I Ever Made.

Justice Sandra Day O'connor Decisions Reflect, In My View, That Our Society Has Worked Very Hard To Improve The Workaday World, To Open Doors To Workers Confronted By Powerful Employers And For Women Facing Harassment And Stereotypes.

I'm Prepared As A Matter Of Faith To Accept That Life Begins At The Moment Of Conception. But That Is My Judgment. For Me To Impose That Judgment On Everyone Else Who Is Equally And Maybe Even More Devout Than I Am Seems To Me Is Inappropriate In A Pluralistic Society.

You Know Whether You Have A Real Relationship With The President When You Know It's Real.

Real Relationship

I Also Acknowledge That Prejudice Runs Very Deep In Our Society. And, In The Real World, Discrimination Rears Its Ugly Head In The Shadows, Where It's Very Difficult To Root It Out.

The Russians Appear To Be - Appear To Be In Conjunction With The Turks, As Well As The Iranians, Appear To Be At A Point Where They Are Realizing For Their Interests As Well, Assad Being In Power Indefinitely Is Not In Their Interests.

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've Never Been Called A Man Of Few Words.

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.

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

I Get A Lot Of Credit I Don't Deserve.

Would Colonel [bernie] Sanders Honeymoon In The Soviet Union?

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

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.

I’ve Been Calling For More Troops For Over Two Years, Along With John Mccain And Others Subsequent To My Saying That.

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.

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.

Why Do People Like America? They Say, Well, You Have The Largest Military In The World. Because You Have More People, Et Cetera. They Like America For What We Stand For. And One Of The Things, And I Feel Proud To Be, What This President's For, The Last Seven Years, Is We Have Once Again Aligned Our Basic Fundamental Beliefs And Principles With Our Conduct. And It Matters. It Matters In Terms Of Our Security. It Matters In Terms Of Our Ability To Influence The World. It Matters In Our Ability To Succeed.

There Will Come A Day, I Promise You, When The Thought Of Your Son, Or Daughter, Or Your Wife Or Your Husband, Brings A Smile To Your Lips Before It Brings A Tear To Your Eye. It Will Happen. My Prayer For You Is That Day Will Come Sooner Than Later.

It's Gonna Be One Of The Great Achievements Of This Administration.

Great Achievement

Look, Freedom Is An Overwhelming American Notion. The Idea That We Want To See The World, The Peoples Of The World Free Is Something That All Of Us Subscribe To.

Foreign Policy Is Like Human Relations, Only People Know Less About Each Other.

To Overcome This Obstacle, And To Discover And Dismantle Saddam Hussein's Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Unmovic And The Iaea Must Interview Relevant Persons Securely And With Their Families Protected, Even If They Protest Publicly Against This Treatment. Hans Blix May Dislike Running ''a Defection Agency,' But That Could Be The Only Way To Obtain Truthful Information About Saddam's Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Somalis Have Made My City Of Wilmington, Delaware, [ Their Home ] On A Smaller Scale. There Is A Large, Very Identifiable Somali Community.

I Still Care Deeply About So Many Thing. And So I'm Going To Be Engaged. I'm Going To Be Out There As - With A Platform To Talk About The Things That I Care About: Foreign Policy And, You Know, Violence Against Women, You Know, The Inequity In The Tax Structure.

There's No Political Point Worth My Son's Life.

The Reason I'm A Democrat Is Because The Essence Of The Democratic Party Is An Abhorrence For The Abuse Of Power On The One Hand, And The Notion That Everyone's Entitled To Be Treated With Dignity. That Message Never Got Through.

I Remember George Mitchell - I Was Doing The Clarence Thomas Hearing, And There Were 48 Senators Declared They Were Not Prepared To Vote For Him At The Front End. We Could Have Filibustered That And Stopped It. George And I - George Was The Leader At The Time - Took The Heat From Every Liberal Group Saying, "no, No, That's Not The Way The System Is Supposed To Work, Since The Constitution - The President Shall Propose And The Constitution Shall Dispose, We're Going To Let Them Hear This."

I Got Tested For Aids. I Know Barack Got Tested For Aids. There's No Shame In Being Tested For Aids.

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

I Was Not An Activist.

In The Middle Of A Recession, Where We're Just Climbing Out Of It, Where The Economy -unemployment Is Still At 9.7 Percent, The Idea Of Raising Taxes And Reducing Spending Is A Prescription For Disaster.

I Had A Great Deal Of Trouble Focusing. My Two - I Had Three Children, And The Two That Survived - Boys - Were Very Badly Injured. I Did My Job. I Didn't Miss The Votes. I Showed Up. But I Just Could Hardly Wait To Get Home.

You Never Say To A President For Certain You Wouldn't Do Anything, But I Have No - Look At Me Now - I Have No Desire To Sit On The Supreme Court, None. It Would Be A Great Honor , But I Have No Desire, Any More Than George Mitchell Did.

You Want To Know Whether We're Better Off? I've Got A Little Bumper Sticker For You: Osama Bin Laden Is Dead And General Motors Is Alive. Osama Bin Laden Is Dead And General Motors Is Alive! Osama Bin Laden Is Dead And General Motors Is Alive!

This Is Absolutely Bizarre That We Continue To Subsidize Highways Beyond The Gasoline Tax, Airlines, And We Don't Subsidize, We Don't Want To Subsidize A National Rail System That Has Environmental Impact.

Mike Dukakis? He's The Salt Of The Earth.

Salt Of The Earth

I've Been Saying For The Last Nine Years, Our Power Comes As Much From - Our Respect In The World Comes As Much From The Exercise Of Our Power As It Does From The Power Of Our Principles.

People Took The Word "clean" Out Of Context. My Mother Had An Expression: "clean As A Whistle, Sharp As A Tack." I Inherited Her Originality.

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.

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

I Didn't Deserve To Be President Just Based On The Richter Scale Of 'was I Tough Enough And Did I Understand The Process?'

We're Approaching Being Able To Do A Billion Billion Calculations Per Second, And That's The - That's The Objective Of Our National Labs. We're Still Not There. But With Hundreds Of Millions Of Calculations Per Second.

Us Worse Off Than Before Saddam Because Us Lost Credibility.

I’d Rather Be At Home Making Love To My Wife While My Children Are Asleep.

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.

If You Go Back And Look At The History Of Supreme Court Fights From The Very Beginning There Is A Corresponding Interest, And And The Intent Of The Interest Of The Senate With, As It Relates To The Probability That The Next Appointee Would Alter The Balance In The Court.

I Always Wonder When It Was That I Was Embraced.

Well, I Thought The Deal Was, When You Went To Work For The Government You Weren't Supposed To Make Money!

As My Family And I Have Worked Through The Grieving Process, I've Said All Along ... That It May Very Well Be That That Process, By The Time We Get Through, It, Closes The Window On Mounting A Realistic Campaign For President That It Might Close.

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?

And I Think Hillary Clinton Is Able To Be Elected President Of The United States.

Justice Sandra Day O'connor Brought Critical Qualities To The High Court That Not Everybody Thinks Are Qualities - I Happen To Think They Are - Her Pragmatism And Her State Craft.

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.

The Number One Job Facing The Middle Class. And It Happens To Be, As Barack Says, A Three-letter Word: Jobs. J-o-b-s.

Every Single Great Idea That Has Marked The 21st Century, The 20th Century And The 19th Century Has Required Government Vision And Government Incentive.

Sure, We Have An Obstacle, Isis. They Can Do Great Damage. They Can Do Great Damage And They Scare The Living Hell Out Of Everybody With Good Reason. But They Are, Instead Of Dealing With Nation-states That Are Arranged Against Us, We're To Deal With Non-state Actors That Can Do Damage To Us. But This Is Within Our Control. We Are Beginning To Make Genuine Progress As To How We Isolate Them, How We Take Them Out. We're In A Situation - I Mean, I Just Could Go On. But I Am - The Only Generic Criticism I Had Is We're Not Talking About The Possibilities.

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?.

When You're Appealing To People's Fears And Anxieties, You Can Make Some Gains.

President Vladimir Putin Continues To Call For New Peace Plans As His Troops Roll Through The Ukrainian Countryside And He Absolutely Ignores Every Agreement That His Country Has Signed In The Past And He Has Signed Recently, We, The United States, And Europe As A Whole, Have To Stand With Ukraine At This Moment. Ukraine Needs Our Financial Assistance And Support As It Pursues Reforms And Even In The Face, In The Face Of This Military Onslaught.

Well, We're [usa] Not Looking For An Ally; What We're Looking For Is A Stable, Democratic Government That Is Not Beholden To Anyone In The Region And Is Able To Be Secure Within Its Own Borders And Have Its Own Policy.

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

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 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.

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

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

America's Leaders Have To Find A Way To Work Together, Rise To The Challenge, And Come Up With Solutions As Bold And Visionary As The People Of This Nation.

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

Telling The Truth

When We Wrote The Constitution, The Intention Was To Give The Commander In Chief The Authority How To Use The Forces When You Authorize Him To Be Able To Use The Forces.

And Bobby [jindal] And I Are Both Catholics.

Resist The Temptation To Ascribe Motive, Because You Really Don't Know - And It Gets In The Way Of Being Able To Reach A Consensus On Things That Matter To You And To Many Other People.

Everyone Thinks Because We Love Cars And Our Dad Was In The Business, We Love The Mechanical End Of Cars.

Somalis Have Made My City Of Wilmington, Delaware, [their Home] On A Smaller Scale. There Is A Large, Very Identifiable Somali Community, I Might Add If You Ever Come To The Train Station With Me You'll Notice I Have Great Relationships With Them Because There's An Awful Lot Driving Cabs And Are Friends Of Mine. For Real. I'm Not Being Solicitous. I'm Being Serious.

I Wouldn’t Go Anywhere In Confined Spaces Now. When One Person Sneezes It Goes All The Way Through The Aircraft. That’s Me. I Would Not Be, At This Point, If They Had Another Way Of Transportation, Suggesting They Ride The Subway.

I Travel A Lot On Foreign Policy, As You Know. I'm In Europe A Lot. I Travelled Over A Million Miles As Vice President. They Didn't Do Stimulus. Look Where They Are. Come On. I Mean, This Is Like, I Just Get So Frustrated. Like Come On.

Al Gore Invented The Internet.

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.

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 The Most Vicious Of All Crimes - To Be Abused By Someone You Had A Relationship With! Because Then You Blame Yourself.

You Know You're A Success When You Look At Your Kids And Realize They Turned Out Better Than You.

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.

I Would Be Surprised If Donald Trump Got Elected.

Transgender Discrimination Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time

You're Looking At A Middle-class Guy. I Am Who I Am.

Donald Trump Is Appealing To, That Whole Expression, Everybody Who Asked Me, Why Is Trump Able To Win In Those 16 People? There's A Whole Expression. In The Land Of The Blind, The One-eyed Man Is King. I'm Not Very Good At Prognosticating But I Would Not Be Surprised If He's The Nominee.

We Also Wanted To Change The Story - Change The Approach To The 21st Century On Energy, On Education, On Transportation, On Infrastructure, Generally, And It Laid The Groundwork For That. And One Of The Reasons I'm Doing This Trip Is Not Only To Say What We Did Worked, But To Say We Should Do More Of This.

I May Be Irish, But I'm Not Stupid.

In The Good Old Days When I Was A Senator, I Was My Own Man.

Mark My Words.it Will Not Be Six Months Before The World Tests Barack Obama Like They Did John Kennedy. The World Is Looking. We're About To Elect A Brilliant 47-year-old Senator President Of The United States Of America. Remember I Said It Standing Here If You Don't Remember Anything Else I Said. Watch, We're Gonna Have An International Crisis, A Generated Crisis, To Test The Mettle Of This Guy.

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.

Stand Up, Chuck, Let Them See You.

I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

You're President, If You Conclude My Judgment Is Not The Right Judgment, I Abide By That, But I Want An Opportunity To Have An Input.

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

The Single Biggest Stimulus To The Economy Are The Unemployment Benefits We're Paying. These People Go Out And They Spend The Money. They Go Out And They Have To Get By To Everything From Paying Their Mortgage Or Buying Food Or Just Getting By. It Has A Significant Impact On Economic Growth And The Continuation Of Economic Growth.

There's Less Than One Percent Of The Population Of Iowa That Is African American. There Is Probably Less Than Four Of Five Percent That Are Minorities. What Is In Washington? So Look, It Goes Back To What You Start Off With, What You're Dealing With.

African American

In Delaware, The Largest Growth In Population Is Indian-americans Moving From India. You Cannot Go To A 7-11 Or A Dunkin Donuts Unless You Have A Slight Indian Accent. I'm Not Joking.

People Are Suspect Because They Believe Your Ideology Blinds You To Equal Application Of The Law, And The Facts.

It Is True That The Vast Majority Of Gun Deaths In America Are Not The Consequence Of The Use Of An 'assault Weapon.' But That Begs The Question Of Whether Assault Weapons Have Any Real Utility Either In Terms Of Any Sporting Or Self Protection Needs.

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.

You Know We're Going To Control The Insurance Companies.

Insurance Companies

Except For The Title 'father,' There Is No Title, Including Vice President, That I Am More Proud To Wear Than That Of A Senator Of The United States.

Almost Every Great Innovation Was [created] By Government.

Grow Up, Donald Trump. Grow Up. Time To Be An Adult. You're President. You've Got To Do Something. Show Us What You Have.

The Idea That You Know More Than The Intelligence Community Knows, It's A Little Like Saying, I Know More About Physics Than My Professor.

Do Not Tell Me Your Values. Just Give Me Pocket Money, I Would Say How Much You Are Worth

When I Said Clean, I Meant He [barack Obama] Was Bright. Like When [donald] Trump Said About Carly [fiorina], "face" He Meant "persona."

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.

The Reason I Talk So Much About The Middle Class Is It's The Glue That Holds America Together. It Really Is. And We Don't Speak Enough To Their Legitimate Concerns.

If We Were Able To Put Every Single Solitary Cancer Cell That Has A Genomic - Had Their Genome Done In One Place, We Have The Computing Capacity To Go In And Look At What Are The Similarities And Dissimilarities That Make Them Work And Don't Work. And Every Expert Will Tell You, It Is Probably Gonna Exponentially Increase The Capacity To Be Able To Find, A, Cures, B, Vaccines, And C, Turn Some Cancers Into Chronic Diseases, Rather Than It Cost You Your Life.

Al Qaeda Is Almost All In Pakistan, And Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons. And Yet For Every Dollar We're Spending In Pakistan, We're Spending $30 In Afghanistan. Does That Make Strategic Sense?

If I Hear One More Republican Tell Me About Balancing The Budget, I Am Going To Strangle Them.

Most Liberals Think Of Civil Liberties As Their Achilles Heel. It Isn't.

I Support Immediate Financial Assistance To The Newly Elected Palestinian President. Now, I Don't Know What Those Numbers Will Be, And I Don't Know How It's Going To Be Framed.

If We Wait For The Danger To Become Clear, It Could Be Too Late.

Now, People When I Say That Look At Me And Say, 'what Are You Talking About, Joe? You're Telling Me We Have To Go Spend Money To Keep From Going Bankrupt?'. The Answer Is Yes, That's What I'm Telling You.

Mr. Trump's A Good Man, But He Doesn't Know Much About The Health Care System.

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.

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.

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

Let's Just Be Smart This Time. I'm Looking For Smart.

I Worked At An All-black Swimming Pool In The East Side Of Wilmington, I Was Involved In What The Negroes, I Mean, Blacks Were Thinking, What They Were Feeling.

The Constitution Says The President Shall Nominate, Not Maybe He Could, Maybe He Can't, He Shall Nominate. Implicit In The Constitution Is That The Senate Will Act On Its Constitutional Responsibility And Give Its Advice And Consent. No One Is Required To Vote For The Nominee.

The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons Is The Greatest Threat Facing The Country-and I Would Argue Facing Humanity.

Every Other Country Where There's Absolute Chaos Now, What Is It? They're Pluralistic Without Consensus. Look At Almost Every Single Country, From Syria, To Iraq, To Iran, Ukraine, No Matter Where It Is. I Just Think It Is Totally Counter To Our Tradition.

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

It's Presumptuous To Say You Know How Somebody Feels.

The Turks ... The Saudis, The Emiratis, Etc. What Were They Doing?

First Of All, There Are Persians And Arabs. The Fact They Share A Religion, A Shiite Religion, Does Not Mean That They're Close. It Doesn't Work That Way. There Is A Relationship Because There Is A Long Border. There Is Going To Be Trade Between Them. They Should Have A Relationship. They Want To Make Sure That - Though, That There Is No Undue Influence Coming From Iran Or Any Other Country In The Region.

A Lucky Person Gets Up In The Morning, Puts Both Feet On The Floor, Knows What They're About To Do And Thinks It Still Matters.

I Think It Is Manmade. I Think It's Clearly Manmade. If You Don't Understand What The Cause Is, It's Virtually Impossible To Come Up With A Solution. We Know What The Cause Is. The Cause Is Manmade. That's The Cause. That's Why The Polar Icecap Is Melting.

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

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

Think About The Decade After Iraq, Not Just The Day After.

The White House Isn't The Place To Learn How To Deal With International Crisis, The Balance Of Power, War And Peace, And The Economic Future Of The Next Generation.

I Believe The American People Have A Genuine And Justifiable Fear Of Government Intrusion In What They Instinctively Know Is Going To Be An Ever More Intrusive World.

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

Theres Only Three Things [giuliani] Mentions In A Sentence—a Noun, A Verb, And 9/11

The Iraqis Have Become Invested In Their Nationhood.

I Believe Health Care Is A Basic Right. If Education - You're Entitled To An Education, Why Wouldn't You Be Entitled To Adequate Health Care? Period.

If I Could Get Every Single Cancer Genome Sequence That Has Been Sequenced; If I Could Ever Put It In One Repository, We Have The Capacity To Do A Million Billion Calculations Per Second. We'll Be Able To Find Out More In 10 Minutes More Than It Would Take 10 Nobel Laureates 10 Years To Find Out About The Patterns Of Cancer And The Cures For Cancer.

Everyone Working 40 Hrs A Week Should Have A Shot At A Decent Life.

As A Matter Of Fact, I Didn't Make A Political Speech Outside Of My State For 20 Years.

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.

I've Been A Strong Supporter Of Public Financing My Whole Career. I'm The First Guy To Introduce A Public Financing Bill To The United States Senate In 1973.

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.

I'm Not Big On Flak Jackets And Tie-dyed Shirts. You Know, That's Not Me.

The Caliphate Will Have Been Dismantled. It Will Still Be A Problem, But That Has Been Our Focus Because That Is The Greatest Existential Threat To U.s. Interests.

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.

Politics Is A Damn Expensive Business. I Had One Hell Of A Time Trying To Raise Money As A Candidate. I Had To Put A Second Mortgage On Our House To Get That Campaign Started, And I Ended Up Spending Over $300,000 To Get Elected. I Believe That Public Financing Of Federal Election Campaigns Is The Only Thing That Will Insure Good Candidates And Save The Two-party System. It Is The Most Degrading Thing In The World To Go Out With Your Hat In Your Hand And Beg For Money, But That's What You Have To Do If You Haven't Got Your Own Resources.

Drug Prices Are A Problem. Access Is A Problem.

There's Good Reason To Be Excited. You Have The First Woman Running Who Is Qualified, And A Very Attractive African-american Who Has Demonstrated Crossover Appeal. I Got Involved In Politics 40 Years Ago During The Civil Rights Movement, So Yes, It's An Exciting Thing.

We Have To Make Sure That Not Only We [politicians] Actually Focus On, But The Entire Nation Knows We're Focusing On, Growth And Competition Within The United States Of America And Compete Internationally. I Don't Know Anywhere Where It's Written That We Have To Be Number Two.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society, For Nothing Suffocates The Promise Of America More Than Unbounded Cynicism And Indifference.

Obama And Biden Want To Raise Taxes By A Trillion Dollars. Guess What? Yes We Do.

If You Need More Than 10 Rounds To Hunt, And Some Argue They Hunt With That Many Rounds, You Shouldn't Be Hunting. If You Can't Get The Deer In 3 Shots, You Shouldn't Be Hunting. You Are An Embarrassment.

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