"I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used."
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"We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America."
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"In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original."
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"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward."
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"The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned."
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"Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame."
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"Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas."
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"Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table."
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"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
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"I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
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"Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence."
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"The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century."
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"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."
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"We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there."
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"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action."
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"The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees."
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"We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future."
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"When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up."
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"I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either."
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"The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week."
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