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Arafat was a barrier to peace.
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.
Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.
In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.
Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.
Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.
Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse.
Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.