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Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.
I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.
What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.
At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.
I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.
I think the troops deserve the best equipment on the battlefield, the best training, and American armor if they get in trouble.
Our veterans have already given everything they have to support and defend our nation - some of them sacrificing life and limb.
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.
I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.
One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
Radical Islamic terrorists and those who fund it remain a credible threat to America and a clear and present danger to democracy.
If you get the government off our back, there's no economy in the world that can create more jobs in the long-term for everybody.
I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.
These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.
I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.
I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.
You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.
No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.
We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.
A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
Washington told Wall Street, 'We're going to let y'all regulate yourselves.' The Republicans were in charge. They never said a word.