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Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?
Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.
Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.
I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.
I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.
Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'
Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.
I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.
President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.
We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.
The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.
My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.
If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.
One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.
That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.
We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.
I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.
If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.
We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.
I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.
The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.
We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.
That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.
I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.
Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing.