"The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat."
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"Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California."
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"Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
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"Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks."
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"This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men."
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"Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby"."
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"The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan."
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"As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger."
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"America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill."
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"If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises"."
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"I spoke to ears that refused to hear."
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"Please tell me you're Republicans."
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"Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated."
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"These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide."
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"What would this country be without this great land of ours."
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"What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people."
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"I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)"
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"We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm."
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"You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer."
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"Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit."
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