"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet."
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"Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again."
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"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?"
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"Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people"
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"What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?"
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"Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen."
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"In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker."
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"I am not a scientist."
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"We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals."
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"I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it."
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"The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing."
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"Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest."
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"Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others."
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"I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales."
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"The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'"
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"Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades."
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"We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous."
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"Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root."
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