"This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong."
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"Is there decency left in American politics?"
"When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety."
"I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for."
"We need leadership, and we need it now."
"Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense."
"As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it."
"I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values."