"Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans."
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"Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt."
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"Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information."
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"We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process."
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"Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law."
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"Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change."
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"Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream."
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"And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice."
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"It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself."
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"We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe."
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"If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have."
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"If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves."
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"Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons."
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"America, now is not the time for small plans."
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"For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East."
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"Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change."
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"John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives."
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"Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home."
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"It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals."
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"Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology."
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