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"We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together."
"You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'"
"So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by."
"So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it."
"The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras."
"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems."
"Hunter Pence eats pizza with a fork."
"For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true."
"Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you."
"We have to ensure free and open exchange of information. That starts with an open internet. I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality. Because once providers start to privilege some applications or websites over others then the smaller voices get squeezed out and we all lose. The internet is perhaps the most open network in history, and we have to keep it that way."
"Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race."
"Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it."
"Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others."
"Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other."
"As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
"My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up."
"Do not tell me that we're not drilling. We're drilling all over this country. I mean, I guess there's some - there are a few spots where we're not drilling. We're not drilling in the national mall. We're not drilling at your house. I guess we could try to have like, you know, 200 oil rigs in the middle of Chesapeake Bay."
"Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth."
"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them."
"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it."