"I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make."
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"I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party."
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"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
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"We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us."
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"But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about."
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"I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing."
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"And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams."
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"You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient."
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"I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance."
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"That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have."
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"All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs."
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"I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves."
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"I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm."
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"Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act."
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"The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time."
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"I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions."
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"Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again."
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"What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice."
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"I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work."
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"I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this."
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