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My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.
If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.
America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.
What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.
I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.
Well, you know, once again, Donald [Trump] is implying that he didn't support the invasion of Iraq. I said it was a mistake.
I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.
If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.
Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
We have to make our economy work for everyone - not just those at the top - protecting our country and protecting our planet.
Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.
I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.
I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.
Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.
Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.
Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.
Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.
I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.
All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.
We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].
The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.
People have to know that they can count on you, that you won`t say one thing one day and something totally different the next.
The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.
Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.
I still believe that if we stand together with courage in our convictions and love for America, our best days are ahead of us.
You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.
Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.
Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.
If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.
We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.