"Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy."
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"The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such."
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"I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans."
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"I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy."
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"What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests."
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"My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends."
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"I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious."
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"I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified."
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"One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy."
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"When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation."
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"So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing."
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"The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they are classified but they are not secret in the sense that when it comes to phone calls every member of Congress has been briefed on this program. With respect to all these programs the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs. These are programs that have been authorized by broad bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006."
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"I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance."
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"Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect."
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"We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans."
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"Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'"
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"I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do"
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"You're likable enough, Hillary."
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"I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
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"A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible."
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