"We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations."
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"That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate"
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"We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective."
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"We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us."
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"Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . ."
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"Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited."
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"I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks."
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"We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended."
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"If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited."
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"Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever."
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"The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock."
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"We are not going to keep the window open forever."
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"My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction."
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"America will rise again. And hope will rise again."
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"The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before."
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"A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values."
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"We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take."
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"But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about."
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"All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American."
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"I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era."
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