"One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland."
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"Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President."
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"To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact that a small clique of attorneys in the Department of Justice can write how can we get around the Geneva Conventions so that we can torture during interrogations - I can't even get their mentally. And when you read their briefs, they didn't get there mentally."
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"Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt."
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"I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection."
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"The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again."
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"It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president."
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"Donald Trump ought to realise that being a president is different to being a candidate and that there is a responsibility that comes with the office."
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"President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch."
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"I think I've done more right than wrong on foreign policy. I've criticized the president for being weak and indecisive. I've been a problem solver in Washington and I think I've got something to offer the party and nation."
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"Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States. Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2010."
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"To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent."
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"It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals."
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"And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit."
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"As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
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"Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last."
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"You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time."
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"Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense."
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"And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for."
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"As president of the United States, I don't bluff."
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