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Well, I Think That There's A Clear Record, I Worked With Ronald Reagan In The Early '80s And His Recovery Program Translated Into Today's Population Of About 25 Million New Jobs In A Seven-year Period. As Speaker Of The House, I Worked With President Clinton And He Followed With A Very Similar Plan. And We Ended Up With About 11 Million New Jobs In A Four-year Period.

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Well, I Think That There's A Clear Record, I Worked With Ronald Reagan In The Early '80s And His Recovery Program Translated Into Today's Population Of About 25 Million New Jobs In A Seven-year Period. As Speaker Of The House, I Worked With President Clinton And He Followed With A Very Similar Plan. And We Ended Up With About 11 Million New Jobs In A Four-year Period.

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I'm Old Enough, I Remember When Richard Nixon Had The Election Stolen In 1960. And No Serious Historian Doubts That Illinois And Texas Were Stolen.

I Am Convinced That If We Do Not Decisively Win The Struggle Over The Nature Of America, By The Time [his Grandchildren Are] My Age They Will Be In A Secular Atheist Country, Potentially One Dominated By Radical Islamists And With No Understanding Of What It Once Meant To Be An American.

If I Can Get You To A Point Where You Can Lead A Full Life, Sustain A Job, Earn Money For Your Family - You Can Be Completely Engaged As A Citizen.

As A Historian I Understand How Histories Are Written. My Enemies Will Write Histories That Dismiss Me And Prove I Was Unimportant. My Friends Will Write Histories That Glorify Me And Prove I Was More Important Than I Was. And Two Generations Or Three From Now, Some Serious Sober Historian Will Write A History That Sort Of Implies I Was Whoever I Was.

The Constitution Gives The President Of The United States An Extraordinarily Wide Grant Of Authority To Use The Power Of The Pardon.

Really Poor Children In Really Poor Neighborhoods Have No Habits Of Working And Have Nobody Around Them Who Works.

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It Doesn’t Matter What I Do. People Need To Hear What I Have To Say. There’s No One Else Who Can Say What I Can Say. It Doesn’t Matter What I Live.

Donald Trump Has To Understand And His Family Has To Understand That There Is A Public Interest Which Transcends Them.

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I Have Enormous Personal Ambition. I Want To Shift The Entire Planet. And I'm Doing It. I Am Now A Famous Person. I Represent Real Power.

When You Have A 12-minute Debate Over Whether Lipstick On A Pig Refers To A Demeaning Comment About The Vice Presidential Candidate, You Know We're Not Talking About Health Reform, We're Not Talking About Energy Policy, We're Not Talking About Balancing The Budget. And You Know, It's Fairly Stupid.

The Republican Brand Has Been So Badly Damaged That If Republicans Try To Run An Anti-obama, Anti-rev. Wright Or, If Sen. Clinton Wins, Anti-clinton Campaign, They Are Simply Going To Fail. This Model Has Already Been Tested With Disastrous Results.

Bowing To The Saudi King Is Not An Energy Policy.

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