"Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate."
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"Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful."
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"There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office."
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"I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead."
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"We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability."
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"David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU."
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"My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here."
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"Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems."
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"We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets."
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"Even when you go up ramp, and you think about [Franklin D. Roosevelt] wheeling himself up, you know, got a little cigarette holder in his mouth, and it, that, that awe that you feel, that reverence that you feel for the place never entirely leaves."
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"You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment."
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"I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did."
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"It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands."
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"Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans."
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"When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes."
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"I think Dona;d Trump is sincere in wanting to be a successful president and moving this country forward and I don't think any president ever comes in saying to himself "I want to figure out how to make people angry or alienate half the country.""
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"I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There's some counties maybe I won, that people didn't expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for."
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"There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic."
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"Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name."
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"Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt."
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