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"The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy."
"In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war."
"If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States."
"Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world"
"I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office."
"There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful."
"The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war."
"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States."
"A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory."
"To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you get back to work instead of questioning my legitimacy? Too bad."
"Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters."
"The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender."
"Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States."
"The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that."
"The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world"
"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
"I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States."
"The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged."
"Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States."
"Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives."
