"Progressives should recognize common morality with religion."
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"Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone."
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"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide."
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"The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America."
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"The Greek people are entrepreneurial."
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"Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process."
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"That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future."
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"I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God."
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"Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity."
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"Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it."
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"Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state."
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"I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others."
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"No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship."
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"Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally."
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"Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do."
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"The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed."
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"All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago."
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"Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***"
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"It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations."
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"We are a people of improbable hope."
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