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"Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs."
"Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism."
"Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length."
"Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option."
"Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick."
"Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up."
"The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole."
"I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade."
"Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants."
"I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy."
"If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them."
"We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward."
"My faith reminds me that we all are sinners."
"We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works."
"What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."
"The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found."
"Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy."
"Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed."
"We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender."
"I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need."