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"In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future."
"Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed."
"The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling."
"With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that."
"Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price."
"There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue."
"The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater."
"Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast."
"Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble."
"These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose."
"If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it."
"Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible."
". . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . ."
"It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going."
"Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken."
"With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness."
"She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life."
"I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it."
"I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing."
"My morals went when the president got oral."
