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"I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights."
"The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today."
"Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions."
"Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid."
"Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake."
"We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability."
"Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship."
"We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities."
"John McCain was a prisoner of war."
"Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office."
"Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president."
"Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders."
"There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours."
"Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers."
"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
"A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in."
"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly"
"Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them"
"For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children"
"We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster."