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"That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door."
"In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies."
"That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."
"Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them."
"We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like.""
"Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism."
"When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill."
"The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails."
"A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it."
"We're not going to have you burdening the health system."
"Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity."
"Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security."
"Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values."
"Working full-time should mean enough to support a family."
"Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics."
"The market alone can't solve our health-care woes."
"Healthcare system is broken without lifetime employment."
"Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality."
"Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights."
"Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line."