"As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for."
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"I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America."
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"Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you."
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"40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety."
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"America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building."
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"In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn't seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive."
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"What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should."
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"The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes.""
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"All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American."
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"The American people abhor a vacuum."
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"The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit."
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"Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance."
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"The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories."
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"Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods."
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"In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm."
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"Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society."
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"Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same."
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"There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America."
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"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America."
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"I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other."
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