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We Have To Create A Process Which Has Legitimacy For The People Of Syria. And We Have To Have A Process Where The Russians And The Iranians And The Neighbors - All Of Them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, A Very Complicated Brew - That You Have To Bring Them Together And They Can Find Agreement. That's The Fundamental Premise Of The Geneva Communique That You Will Have, By Mutual Consent, A Process Of Transition.

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We Have To Create A Process Which Has Legitimacy For The People Of Syria. And We Have To Have A Process Where The Russians And The Iranians And The Neighbors - All Of Them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, A Very Complicated Brew - That You Have To Bring Them Together And They Can Find Agreement. That's The Fundamental Premise Of The Geneva Communique That You Will Have, By Mutual Consent, A Process Of Transition.

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I Refuse To Stand By While Our Democracy Is Trampled By Politicians More Concerned About Amassing Power Than Helping The People Who Sent Them To Washington In The First Place.

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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 The Tea Party Folks Would Go Out There And Get Angry Because They Think Their Taxes Are Too High, For God's Sake, A Lot Of Citizens Ought To Get Angry About The Fact That They're Being Killed And Our Planet's Being Injured By What's Happening On A Daily Basis By The Way We Provide Our Power And Our Fuel And The Old Practices That We Have. That's Something Worth Getting Angry About.

I Look Forward To Standing Up And Holding George Bush Accountable For Pushing Seniors Off Of Medicare Into Hmos.

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

What Remains Unchanged Is The Principle, Which Is That We Do Not Launch Wars Without Overwelming Reasons, And Overwhelming Alliances, And Without Overwhelming Force.

That Is What Americans Do. We Face A Challenge - No Matter How Great - Because We Know That On The Other Side There Is Always Hope.

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.

There Is A Much Cheaper Way, Less Complicated Way To Bring Iraq And Saddam Hussein To Its Knees: It Is Simply To Send The Bush Economic Team Over There And Let Them Run The Country.

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.

Patriots Don't Go To Russia. They Don't Seek Asylum In Cuba. They Don't Seek Asylum In Venezuela. They Fight Their Cause Here. Edward Snowden Is A Coward. He Is A Traitor. And He Has Betrayed His Country. And If He Wants To Come Home Tomorrow To Face The Music, He Can Do So.

What Donald Trump Is Doing Is Serving The Polluters And Serving A Narrow Group Of Ideological Interests. That's Not Leadership. That's Abdication Of Responsibility, And This Step Does Not Make America First. It Makes America Last.

I Defended This Country As A Young Man, And I Will Defend It As President.

Thank You Very Much For Contacting Me To Express Your Support For The Actions Of President Bush In Response To The Iraqi Invasion Of Kuwait. From The Outset Of The Invasion, I Have Strongly And Unequivocally Supported President Bush's Response To The Crisis And The Policy Goals He Has Established With Our Military Deployment In The Persian Gulf.

Not To Wax Nostalgic About The 1970s, But Back Then People Got Upset When They Saw Injustice. They Got Tired Of Seeing Our Air, Land And Water Polluted. They Were Shocked When The Cuyahoga River In Ohio Was Polluted So Badly It Caught Fire. And On One Great Day 20 Million Americans Marched All Across This Land. Politicians Had No Choice But To Take Notice.

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.

What Is Happening Is Policy In Israel Is Being Driven By The Settlers Who Don't Support A Two-state Solution, Who Want Their Settlements To Prevent The Possibility Of Two States. They Openly Say That.

I'm A Catholic, Raised A Catholic. I Was An Altar Boy. Religion Has Been A Huge Part Of My Life. It Helped Lead Me Through A War, Leads Me Today.

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.

We Should Not Allow A Tiny Minority Of Shoddy Scientists And Science And Extreme Ideologues To Compete With Scientific Facts.

War On Terror Is Far Less Of A Military Operation And Far More Of An Intelligence-gathering, Law-enforcement Operation.

Intelligence Gathering

As The Saying Goes, I Have Big Heels To Fill.

Those Who Try To Stifle The Vibrancy Of Our Democracy And Shield Policies From Scrutiny Behind A False Cloak Of Patriotism Miss The Real Value Of What Our Troops Defend And How We Best Defend Our Troops. We Will Ask Questions And We Will Defend Our Democracy.

There Are Issues Of War And Peace. And Then, There Are Issues Of Life And Death Like This One That Are No Less Morally Compelling Than War Itself.

People Talk About [bashar] Assad Running Syria. He Doesn't Control His Own Country. He's Down To About 20, 25 Percent Of The Country. What Is This Fiction That He Is Somehow The Only Person Who Can Save Syria? There's - With Assad There, There Is No Syria. So That's What The Iranians And The Russians Need To Really Begin To Focus In On.

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

And Here And Now We Must Insist Again That Fidelity, Honor, And Love Of Country Demand Untrammeled Debate And Open Dissent. At No Time Is That Truer Than In The Midst Of A War Rooted In Deceit And Justified By Continuing Deception.

I Personally Didn't See Personal Atrocities In The Sense I Saw Somebody Cut A Head Off Or Something Like That. However, I Did Take Part In Free-fire Zones, I Did Take Part In Harassment And Interdiction Fire, I Did Take Part In Search-and-destroy Missions.

Under This [bush] Administration, America's Middle Class Has Been Abandoned -- Its Dreams Denied, Its Main Street Interests Ignored And Its Mainstream Values Scorned By A White House That Puts Privilege First.

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

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

What We Have To Do Is Go On The Offensive. [the Science On Climate Change] Has Been Maligned And Misinterpreted, And We Need To Fight Back... [p]eople [need To] Stop Being Moved By These Talk Show [hosts] And Start Looking For The Facts Themselves.

Values Are Not Just Words, Values Are What We Live By. They're About The Causes That We Champion And The People We Fight For.

I Don't Think Losing 3 Million Jobs, Having Deficits As Far As The Eye Can Go, Having 2 Million People Lose Their Health Insurance, Turning Your Back On Kids In Schools And Not Funding No Child Left Behind Represents A Vision.

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?

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.

We Need To Put Our Faith And Trust In The People On The Frontlines -- And Back It Up With Real Resources. We Need To Make Sure First Defenders Have The Gear And Support They Need, And The Benefits And Protections They've Earned. With New Technology And Ingenuity, By Doing More To Sustain Our First Defenders And Calling On Americans To Do More For Their Country, We Can Make Our Country Stronger, Safer, And More Secure.

When The Nations Of The World Look Upon The United States, They See A Country Which Has Achieved What They Would All Like To Become One Day. Whether It Is In The Field Of Science, Art, Music, Agriculture, Politics, Economics Or War, The United States Is The Leader.

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

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