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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.

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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.

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Matter Of Fact, The Way We Got A Path, A Great Friend, Arlen Specter, I Convinced Him To Switch Parties. Not A Joke. Not A Joke. He Was The Deciding Vote.

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Thus, In Setting An American Agenda For A New World Order, We Must Begin With A Profound Alteration In Traditional Thought.

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I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

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It's Amazing To Me That No Matter What City, What State, No Matter Where I Am, A Woman Will Come Up To Me And Say "thank You, Thank You" For Writing The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, Which Funds Services For Victims And Pushes To Put More Assailants Behind Bars.

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

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.

I Always Wonder When It Was That I Was Embraced.

Arafat's Departure Has Created An Awesome Opportunity.

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.

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.

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 Acknowledge These Are Very Tough Jobs A Judge Has In Determining Whether Or Not There Is An Openness That Is Required Under The Constitution.

Barack And I See A Future... Where No One, No One Is Forced To Live In The Shadows Of Intolerance.

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.

Hilary Clinton Might Have Been A Better Pick Than Me.

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.

We Take Care Of Those Who Are Grieving, And When That's Finished, They Should Know: We Will Follow Them To The Gates Of Hell Until They Are Brought To Justice. Because Hell Is Where They Will Reside. Hell Is Where They Will Reside.

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.

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

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.

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.

All You Need Is A Double Barrel

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I Was 29 Years Old When I Came To The United States Senate, And I Have Learned A Lot.

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.

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.

During The 60's, I Was, In Fact, Very Concerned About The Civil Rights Movement.

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

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

It(boston Bombings) Was Worth It To Hear You(survivor Speakers) Speak.

We Have The Greatest Resource Universities In The World, The Only Place In The World. We Have The Most Productive Workforce In The World. We Have The Most Agile Venture Capitalists In The World. We Have A Situation Where Right Now In The United States Of America, We Are Near Energy Independent. North America Is Beginning To Be The Epicenter Of Energy. What Is It That Makes People Think That This Is Not Going To Be The American Century? I Don't Get It.

We Have A Bill Of Rights, We Have Trial By Jury. We Have A Notion That You Are - You're Innocent Until You're Proven Guilty. We Have All These Things.

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

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.

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