"I hope you're all Republicans."
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"I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom."
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"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!"
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"There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start."
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"I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'."
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"Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection."
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"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."
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"I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him."
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"America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow."
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"The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out."
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"We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him."
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"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."
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"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives."
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"How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans."
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"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country."
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"I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow."
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"[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism."
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"A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow."
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"Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?"
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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