"I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not."
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"But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it."
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"I don't want to hold you hand!"
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"Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy."
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"There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done."
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"I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back."
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"You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself."
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"I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want."
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"America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children."
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"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."
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"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide."
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"If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have."
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"The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole."
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"I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade."
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"Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan."
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"Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon."
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"Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story."
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"Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree."
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"If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid."
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"There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans."
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